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.
William Faulkner (1897-1962) American novelist
“The Art of Fiction No. 12,” interview by Jean Stein, The Paris Review (Spring 1956)
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On being a good novelist.
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How often in life we complete a task that was beyond the capability of the person we were when we started it.
Robert Brault (b. c. 1945) American aphorist, programmer
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