Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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 one individual can tell the truth.
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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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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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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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Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut.
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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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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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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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History is not was, it is.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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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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