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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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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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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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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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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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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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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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
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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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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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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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