Civilization begins with distillation
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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No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
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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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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.
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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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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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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
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