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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERTomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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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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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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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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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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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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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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