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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERSomeone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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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.
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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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History is not was, it is.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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