Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday's omissions and regrets.

Quote by William Faulkner

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Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.

Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.

Landlord of a bordello! The company's good and the mornings are quiet, which is the...

Landlord of a bordello! The company's good and the mornings are quiet, which is the...

Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing...

Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing...

I'm inclined to think that a military background wouldn't hurt anyone.

I'm inclined to think that a military background wouldn't hurt anyone.

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better...

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better...

Perhaps they were right in putting love into books, . . . Perhaps it could...

Perhaps they were right in putting love into books, . . . Perhaps it could...

I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on...

I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on...

There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel...

There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel...

A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.

A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.

The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.

The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call...

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call...

If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The Ode on...

If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The Ode on...

I decline to accept the end of man.

I decline to accept the end of man.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to...

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to...

Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.

Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on...

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on...

Man knows so little about his fellows. In his eyes all men or women act...

Man knows so little about his fellows. In his eyes all men or women act...

Perhaps they were right in putting love into books... Perhaps it could not live anywhere...

Perhaps they were right in putting love into books... Perhaps it could not live anywhere...

Well, between Scotch and nothin', I suppose I'd take Scotch. It's the nearest thing to...

Well, between Scotch and nothin', I suppose I'd take Scotch. It's the nearest thing to...

We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.

We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.