Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
WILLIAM FAULKNERTomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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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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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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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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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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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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Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
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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. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
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Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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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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I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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