If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
WILLIAM FAULKNERTomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut.
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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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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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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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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
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No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
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