Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
WILLIAM FAULKNERSome things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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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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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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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
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If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
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Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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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.
WILLIAM FAULKNER