Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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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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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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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. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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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.
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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
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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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If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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