Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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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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Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what’s beautiful, and it’s best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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Try to be better than yourself.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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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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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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