It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
WILLIAM FAULKNERYou don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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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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You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
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No 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.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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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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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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