People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
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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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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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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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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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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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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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Like 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.
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She was the captain of her soul
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