Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
WILLIAM FAULKNERBelieve that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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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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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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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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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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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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The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got it or not.
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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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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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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