Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
WILLIAM FAULKNERA mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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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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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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Civilization begins with distillation
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All l mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don’t know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way.
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.
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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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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
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You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
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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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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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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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