Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
WILLIAM FAULKNERA writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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I 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.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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History is not was, it is.
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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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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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If 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…
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