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 FAULKNERFor every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
More William Faulkner Quotes
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History is not was, it is.
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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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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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Try to be better than yourself.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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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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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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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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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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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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