The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
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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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The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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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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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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