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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERNo matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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She was the captain of her soul
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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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Civilization begins with distillation
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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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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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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