If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
WILLIAM FAULKNERAlways dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
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The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
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He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought.
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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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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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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
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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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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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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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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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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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