All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIt’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what’s beautiful, and it’s best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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