“Can you imagine a higher moral calling than to destroy someone’s dreams with one bullet…?”
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William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer
Paris Review interview (1958)
Context: 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. An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
“Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.”
Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psychoanalysis
“You can never be upset with the people who forced you into your dream or up higher.”
Tyler Perry (1966) American actor, director, screenwriter, playwright, producer, author, and songwriter
“It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.”
Horace Mann (1796–1859) American politician
Source: Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann (1872), p. 213