Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
More William Faulkner Quotes
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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She was the captain of her soul
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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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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Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
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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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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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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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