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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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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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations.
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She was the captain of her soul
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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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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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But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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