{"id":595,"date":"2013-08-18T17:26:05","date_gmt":"2013-08-18T17:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/?p=595"},"modified":"2013-08-18T17:28:06","modified_gmt":"2013-08-18T17:28:06","slug":"william-faulkner-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/?p=595","title":{"rendered":"William Faulkner quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Speech-marks.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-487\" style=\"width: 126px; height: 123px;\" alt=\"Speech marks\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Speech-marks-150x150.png\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Faulkner, William (1897 &#8211; 1962), US novelist<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i>All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.<\/p>\n<p>The artist doesn&#8217;t have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews; the ones who want to write don&#8217;t have the time to read reviews.<\/p>\n<p>The past is not dead. In fact, it&#8217;s not even past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faulkner, William (1897 &#8211; 1962), US novelist All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible. 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