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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIt’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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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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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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It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
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But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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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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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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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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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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