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 FAULKNERWhatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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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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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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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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The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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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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