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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERTry to be better than yourself.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
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If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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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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I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
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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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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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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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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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