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Better Quotes by William Faulkner
- They will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white men or that white men…
- 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…
- Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be…
- Try to be better than yourself.
- Don't bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
- I do not rewrite unless I am absolutely sure that I can express the material better if I do rewrite it.
- Women ... to them any wedding is better than no wedding and a big wedding with a villain preferable to a small one with a…
- Most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be.
- Let the past abolish the past when -- and if -- it can substitute something better.
- Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to…
- All of us have failed to match our dream of perfection. I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.…
- Idleness breeds our better virtues.
- 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…
- 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…
- I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily…
- any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead…
- 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…
- There is no such thing as a bad whisky. Some whiskies just happen to be better than others.
- Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
- Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better that yourself!
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