Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
WILLIAM FAULKNERTomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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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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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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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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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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All l mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don’t know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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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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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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