How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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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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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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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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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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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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