Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
WILLIAM FAULKNERSo, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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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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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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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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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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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
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A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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