It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
WILLIAM FAULKNERHaunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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 young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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Civilization begins with distillation
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Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what’s beautiful, and it’s best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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All l mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don’t know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.
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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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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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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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