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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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Actually, the only thing I regret is not making more underground films and bringing them with me as historical documents.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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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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If in my fight I can encourage even some people to understand and to abandon policies they now so blindly follow, I shall not regret any punishment I may incur.
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I don't regret any decisions I've made in my life.
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While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it.
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Cold approbation gave the ling'ring bays,For those who durst not censure, scarce could praise.
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To build an empire - or win seven Tour de Frances in a row - you must have a Lone Star-size ego and a dash of megalomania.
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I don't want to look back and be like, 'You had it all, and you weren't even present for it. You weren't able to enjoy it.' I want to be here, be now and be grateful.
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I think of the world when I hurt, and keep on existing in the now.
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It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret.
