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Don't bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
William Faulkner
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William Faulkner
Age: 64 †
Born: 1897
Born: September 25
Died: 1962
Died: July 6
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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People everywhere are about the same, but ... it did seem that in a small town, where evil is harder to accomplish, where opportunities for privacy are scarcer, that people can invent more of it in other people's names. Because that was all it required: that idea, that single idle word blown from mind to mind.
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I dont hate it he thought, panting in the cold air, the iron New England dark I dont. I dont! I dont hate it! I dont hate it!
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I suppose that people, using themselves and each other so much by words, are at least consistent in attributing wisdom to a still tongue.
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I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long enough to exhaust it.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be - curious - to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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One day I was talking to Cora. She prayed for me because she believed I was blind to sin, wanting me to kneel and pray too, because people to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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It feels almost soft, like something to be caressed. Only gold feels that way.
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People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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When I was a boy I first learned how much better water tastes when it has set a while in a cedar bucket. Warmish-cool, with a faint taste like the hot July wind in Cedar trees smells.
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When something is new and hard and bright, there ought to be something a little better for it than just being safe, since the safe things are just the things that folks have been doing so long they have worn the edges off and there's nothing to the doing of them that leaves a man to say, That was not done before and it cannot be done again.
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She wouldn't say what we both knew. 'The reason you will not say it is, when you say it, even to yourself, you will know it is true: is that it? But you know it is true now. I can almost tell you the day when you knew it is true. Why won't you say it, even to yourself?' She will not say it.
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Poor man. Poor mankind.
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Be scared. You can't help that. But don't be afraid.
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This does not matter. This is not anything yet. It all depends on what you do with it, afterward.
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It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless, no refuse save the printed books. [] It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: he made the books and he died.
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We could live like counts. ... If all that money is out there, I might as well hack a little on the side and put the novel off.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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He was looking at her from behind the smiling that wasn't smiling but was something you were not supposed to see beyond.
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Gough never pretended to perfection or to sainthood - well, hardly ever. Although when he set off the metal detector at airport security, he would blame his aura.
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