Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIt’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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Civilization begins with distillation
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.
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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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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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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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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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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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No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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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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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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