Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIf people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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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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No one individual can tell the truth.
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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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