Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
WILLIAM FAULKNERRemember, 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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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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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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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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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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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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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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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
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