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Thinking Quotes by William Faulkner
- At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself,…
- I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it. Someone…
- A fellow gets to thinking. About all the sorrow and afflictions in this world; how it's liable to strike anywhere, like lightning.
- I'm inclined to think that a military background wouldn't hurt anyone.
- I think that-that anyone, the painter, the musician, the writer works in a-a kind of an-an insane fury. He's demon-driven. He can get up feeling…
- She forced herself once more to think of nothing, to keep her consciousness immersed, as a little dog that one keeps under water until he…
- How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.
- He is thinking quietly: I should not have got out of the habit of prayer.
- I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.
- …I seemed to be lying neither asleep nor awake looking down a long corridor of gray half light where all stable things had become shadowy…
- A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
- I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and…
- You don't dare think whole even to yourself the entirety of a dear hope or wish let alone a desperate one else you yourself have…
- ...I would think how words go straight up in a thin line, quick and harmless, and how terribly doing goes along the earth, clinging to…
- ...thinking as he had thought before and would think again and as every other man has thought: how false the most profound book turns out…
- And when I think about that, I think that if nothing but being married will help a man, he's durn nigh hopeless.
- Sometimes I aint so sho who's got ere a right to say when a man is crazy and when he aint. Sometimes I think it…
- When the switch fell I could feel it upon my flesh; when it welted and ridged it was my blood that ran, and I would…
- 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…
- It is just dawn, daylight: that gray and lonely suspension filled with the peaceful and tentative waking of birds. The air, inbreathed, is like spring…
- Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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