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 FAULKNERThe last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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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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The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got it or not.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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