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 FAULKNERThe only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
More William Faulkner Quotes
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For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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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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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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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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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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So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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