Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
WILLIAM FAULKNERHollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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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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Civilization begins with distillation
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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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.
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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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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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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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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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