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.
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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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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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
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The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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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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History is not was, it is.
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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
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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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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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