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 FAULKNERYou can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
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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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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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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
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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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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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