Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe past is never dead, it is not even past.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.
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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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Civilization begins with distillation
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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History is not was, it is.
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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