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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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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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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I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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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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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
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