The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got it or not.
WILLIAM FAULKNERA gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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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.
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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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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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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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Try to be better than yourself.
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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
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