black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

William Faulkner

Related Topics

Better Bother Just Other Try Yourself

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

All l mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don’t know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

All Another Except Have Know Mix Same String Try Way
She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Accept Capacity Give Love Shem Bore
A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

A Man All Men Chance Choose Evil Fame Good Hundred Meddel Meddle Meddling One Opportunities Pass Riche Sometimes Want Welldoing
Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Between Choice Choose Experience Given Nothing Pain Path
The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Man Salvation Suffer World
The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Best Fiction Journalism More True
A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Afraid Already Before Cling Ever Fellow Got might More Risk Trouble Use
We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Afraid Be Ourselves Start Teach
If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Classic Earth Individual Men Next Room Thousand Today Tonight Week Women
Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Bad Classic Do Everything Good How Read Trash
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Afraid Against Compassion Greed Honesty Lie never Raise Truth
Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Die Do Love Men Women
The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Amn Curious Does Important Insight Most Muil Muse Thing Wonder
Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Do Each Fact Much Other Really Truth With
If a story is in you, it has to come out.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Come Has Out Story
The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Art Only Responsible Writer
Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Always Artist Behind Final Important Importantly Irrevocable Leave Man Mortal Oblivion Pass Possible Since Someday Something Through Wall
A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Call Congenitally Fiction Tell Truth Unable Write Writer
No one individual can tell the truth.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Individual No One Tell Truth
Yes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Damage Dead Escape Folk Hold Lay Live Man One Quiet Talk Yes
Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Avatar Condition Existence Fluid Individual Momentary No Only People Such Thing Time
Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Believe Endure Man Merely Prevail
Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Build Draft First House Strong Wind Write
So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Afraid Against Compassion Greed Honesty Injustice Lie never Raise Truth Voice
Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Afraid Be Help Scared
Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

After Death Destroy Good Nothing Only Thing Writer
There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Less Many Some Thing Thousand Three Too Word

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes