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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERLike a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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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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The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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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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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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