Day fourteen of our daily readings from “Dear Los Angeles,” a collection of letters and diary entries from 1542 to 2018, while all of us quarantine in 2020.
Today’s entry from 1943 comes from a letter William Faulkner wrote to his nephew. Faulkner was one of the great American authors and his work remains deeply relevant.
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Quotes by William Faulkner
“· The past is not dead. In fact, it’s not even past.
· I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
· Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
· Between grief and nothing I will take grief.
· An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.
· Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
· Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.”
James Franco in “As I Lay Dying”"