She was the captain of her soul
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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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
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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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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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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.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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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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