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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERSuccess is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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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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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
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The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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