This date in 1897 saw the birth of William Faulkner. Here are some words of wisdom from him:
- You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
- You must walk up the hills so you can ride down.
- 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 better than yourself.
- You can't beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don't even try to.
- You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
- Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest.
- A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
- A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station…
- The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
- An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.
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