Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
WILLIAM FAULKNERPouring out liquor is like burning books.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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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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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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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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No one individual can tell the truth.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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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 say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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Civilization begins with distillation
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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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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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