The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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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.
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You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
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He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.
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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
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