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 FAULKNERGiven the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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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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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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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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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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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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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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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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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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If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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