Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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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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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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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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Civilization begins with distillation
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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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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Yes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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