Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
WILLIAM FAULKNERWho gathers the withered rose?
More William Faulkner Quotes
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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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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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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