William Faulkner Quotes
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
Quotes to Explore
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Learn from your dreams what you lack.
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Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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Surreal fiction is a sophisticated art form. Events happen divorced from conventional logic, as events in a dream may happen. But unlike dreams, everything in the story contributes to an overall coherent point, impression or emotion.
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Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant.
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In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
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My dreams are all follies.
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Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
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A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little did I know that I would live in Malacanang Palace for 20 years and visit all the major palaces of mankind. And then also meet ordinary citizens and the leaders of superpowers.
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It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.
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You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.
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Poverty leads to hardship and failure.
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I had my freedom, and I had my comfortable life, but I couldn't accept the fact that the politicians were making it increasingly difficult for my kids and millions of others to achieve their dreams as I had achieved mine. So, in 2012, I ran for president.
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When I was 11 years old, I was bullied. It mainly started when I moved to California to pursue my dreams of being an actress. Kids back home in Texas, who I thought were my friends, were saying things behind my back. They said that I would never make it because I wasn't talented or pretty enough to be on TV.
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I know as soon as a game is finished if I have done well. I don't need people to tell me. I want to achieve perfection.
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Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
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The way most people fail is in not keeping up the heart.
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I never blame failure - there are too many complicated situations in life - but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.
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If you look at great human civilizations, from the Roman Empire to the Soviet Union, you will see that most do not fail simply due to external threats but because of internal weakness, corruption, or a failure to manifest the values and ideals they espouse.
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It is better to conceal ignorance than to expose it.
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It was because of Henderson that I stayed... It was he and he alone who kept me in Toronto and in Canada. Were it not for Henderson, I believe insulin would have been a product of the United States.
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It’s called sticking your head in the sand, and because I did that I lost millions of quid and still don’t have financial security now, even after forty years of being in the music business, the co-writer of ‘Blue Monday’ and ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’ and many successful albums. At the end of the day I’ve only got myself to blame for said actions and for never raising my voice against signing daft agreement after daft agreement, that signed away 30 per cent of my earnings in perpetuity and all my rights to publishing and song royalties to erroneous partnerships and companies I have absolutely no control over. It’s unbelievable to me now.
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
