Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
William Faulkner quote The work of the artist is to lift up peoples hearts and help them endure
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William Faulkner quoteAll of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
William Faulkner quote Well, between Scotch and nothin', I suppose I'd take Scotch. It's the nearest thing to good moonshine I can find.
William Faulkner quote Why that's a hundred miles away. That's a long way to go just to eat.
William Faulkner quote 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.
William Faulkner quote 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.
William Faulkner quote The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
William Faulkner quote Biography
Author, was recipient of the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature
