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 FAULKNERTo live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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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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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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History is not was, it is.
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The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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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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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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