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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.

William Faulkner

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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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Better Bother Just Other Try Yourself
Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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All Desire Give Hope Mausoleum
Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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