William Faulkner Quotes
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The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.
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I don't believe in regret.
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Old habits die hard. I don't like spending money willy-nilly.
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I've done a lot of things that I regret.
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Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.
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I regret that I have not written more, shouted louder, and acted out my beliefs.
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My life was really focused on futbol, but as those things happen in life, my passion for music won over my passion for futbol. But I love what I do. I don't regret it.
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I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.
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The idea is this: It's important to upset one's work habits, to topple the cart for each project.
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I don't go around thinking about regret; regret doesn't consume me as a person... I'm not certain about whether any writer, any artist, any musician, can write without regret, so I don't think perhaps it's even particularly Southern.
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Actually, the only thing I regret is not making more underground films and bringing them with me as historical documents.
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I...regret...what I did. It was wrong. Very wrong. But regret is meaningless.
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Personally of course I regret everything. Not a word, not a deed, not a thought, not a need, not a grief, not a joy, not a girl, not a boy, not a doubt, not a trust, not a scorn, not a lust, not a hope, not a fear, not a smile, not a tear, not a name, not a face, no time, no place, that I do not regret, exceedingly. An ordure, from beginning to end.
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The power of the present moment is so immense it is capable - when lived in fully - of destroying forever every past mistake and regret.
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My only merit lies in having painted directly in front of nature, seeking to render my impressions of the most fleeting effects, and I still very much regret having caused the naming of a group whose majority had nothing impressionist about it.
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I deeply regret the impact of my comments and apologise for not having weighed them more carefully … I was wrong to have spoken in a way that has resulted in an unintended signal of discouragement to talented girls and women.
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Dream that the lips once breathlessMight quicken if they would;Say that the soul is deathless;Dream that the gods are good;Say March may wed September,And time divorce regret;But not that you remember,And not that I forget.
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Clavain felt little in the way of regret; more a sense of quiet relief that they were past the negotiating stage and into the infinitely more honest arena of actual battle.
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My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times building.
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Huizi would say, never look back to the past. Never regret. Even if there is emptiness ahead, never look back.
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I had absolute freedom to create things on my own and in silence. No rush, the artificial rush by media. Certainly no rush to grow up. We had plenty of boyhood, plenty of girlhood.
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I remember the first time my mind was blown by an actor was Tim Curry, because I loved 'Clue' when I was a kid, and then I was watching the movie 'Legend,' and the Devil suddenly smiles, and I was like, 'It's the same guy!' It was a total Keyser Soeze moment.
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It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret.
