The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
WILLIAM FAULKNERThere are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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.
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You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
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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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If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
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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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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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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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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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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 books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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