The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
WILLIAM FAULKNERI never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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She was the captain of her soul
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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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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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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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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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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