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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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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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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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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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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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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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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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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