It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
WILLIAM FAULKNERPeople need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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She was the captain of her soul
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
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If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
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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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