Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. - William Faulkner Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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I don't know anything about inspiration because I don't know what inspiration is I've heard about it, but I never saw it. - William Faulkner Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Pointless... like giving caviar to an elephant. - William Faulkner Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual's individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only. Whatever its symbol -- cross or crescent or whatever -- that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race. - William Faulkner Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream. - William Faulkner Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Between grief and nothing I will take grief. - William Faulkner Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
I believe that man will not merely endure he will prevail. - William Faulkner Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies. - William Faulkner Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Well, between Scotch and nothin', I suppose I'd take Scotch. It's the nearest thing to good moonshine I can find. - William Faulkner Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder. - William Faulkner Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoevski, all of us. - William Faulkner Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The salvation of the world is in man's suffering. - William Faulkner Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
I never promise a woman anything nor let her know what I'm going to give her. That's the only way to manage them. Always keep them guessing. - William Faulkner Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief. - William Faulkner Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Really the writer doesn't want success.... He knows he has a short span of life, that the day will come when he must pass through the wall of oblivion, and he wants to leave a scratch on that wall Kilroy was here that somebody a hundred, or a thousand years later will see. - William Faulkner Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday's omissions and regrets. - William Faulkner Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament with faith. - William Faulkner Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky. - William Faulkner Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The best job that was ever offered to me was to become a landlord in a brothel. In my opinion it's the perfect milieu for an artist to work in. - William Faulkner Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels only when the clock stops does time come to life. - William Faulkner Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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. - William Faulkner Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
All 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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Poor man. Poor mankind. - William Faulkner Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything. - William Faulkner Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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