Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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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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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
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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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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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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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