Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIf 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…
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Someone 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.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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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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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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She was the captain of her soul
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
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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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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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