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 FAULKNERGiven the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.
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Yes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
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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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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.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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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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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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The 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.
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