Welcome to Quoteland and thanks for posting your request.
You might get a kick out of reviewing an 18 page thread titled "what are you reading right now?" at
http://forum.quoteland.com/eve/forums?q=Y&a=tpc&s=586192041&f=8951976686&m=18410814&p=1A lot of good tips there.
I continue to learn that mostly the main thing is to read.
"Reading"
http://quoteland.com/topic.asp?CATEGORY_ID=122
“... 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 it, so that after a while the two lines are too far apart for the same person to straddle from one to the other; and that sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forget the words.”
~ William Faulkner, character Addie Bundren in “As I Lay Dying” pp. 165-6
"I learned little save that most of the deeds, good and bad both, incurring opprobrium or plaudits or reward either, within the scope of man's abilities, had already been performed and were to be learned about only from books."
~ William Faulkner, character Thomas Sutpen in “Absalom, Absalom!” [Vintage Corrected Text], p. 195
…when Father gave it to me he said
I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
~ William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
