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Trying Quotes by William Faulkner
- 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…
- At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself,…
- 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…
- I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the most…
- Try to be better than yourself.
- Don't bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
- The reason I don't like interviews is that I seem to react violently to personal questions. If the questions are about the work, I try…
- I am trying to say it all in one sentence, between one cap and one period.
- 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.…
- You can't beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don't even try to.
- a fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he's already got. He'll cling to trouble…
- ...I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget…
- He thought that it was loneliness which he was trying to escape and not himself. But the street ran on: catlike, one place was the…
- The next time you try to seduce anyone, don't do it with talk, with words. Women know more about words than men ever will. And…
- 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…
- It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot along…
- That was when I learned that words are no good; that words dont ever fit even what they are trying to say at. When he…
- Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
More Trying Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- I try to work on shows that I would want to watch. — J. J. Abrams
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas… — Andrea Arnold
- I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to… — Darren Aronofsky
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to… — Antonin Artaud
- Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. — Mary Kay Ash