Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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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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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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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.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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