Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
WILLIAM FAULKNERAnd sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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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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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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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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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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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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Yes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
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