I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
WILLIAM FAULKNERTomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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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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Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
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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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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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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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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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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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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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