Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
WILLIAM FAULKNERMen have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
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You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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Yes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
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The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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