I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
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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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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All l mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don’t know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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History is not was, it is.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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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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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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