Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
WILLIAM FAULKNERLife is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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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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The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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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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I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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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.
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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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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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Civilization begins with distillation
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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Yes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
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