Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
WILLIAM FAULKNERTomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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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 bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
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I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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Civilization begins with distillation
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