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Letter "W" » William Faulkner Quotes
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«Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.»
Author: William Faulkner
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Trying
| Keywords:
bother, contemporaries, predecessors, The Contemporary
«The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.»
«I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are.»
«The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies.»
«To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi»
«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.»
«I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.»
«Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame. No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash. Your picture in the paper nor money in the bank, neither. Just refuse to bear them.»
Author: William Faulkner
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
bank, cashed, cash in, cash in on, dishonor, dishonored, dishonoring, dishonors, have got, injustice, kudos, outrage, outraged, outrages, paper money, Refusing, shame, unable
«I decline to accept the end of man.»
«I don't care much for facts, am not much interested in them; you can't stand a fact up, you've got to prop it up, and when you move to one side a little and look at it from that angle, it's not thick enough to cast a shadow in that direction.»
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