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The 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.

William Faulkner

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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
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I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
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The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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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.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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