Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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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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Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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