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Most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be.
William Faulkner
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William Faulkner
Age: 64 †
Born: 1897
Born: September 25
Died: 1962
Died: July 6
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Between grief and nothing, I will take grief.
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The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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Ever since then I have believed that God is not only a gentleman and a sport he is a Kentuckian too.
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I do not rewrite unless I am absolutely sure that I can express the material better if I do rewrite it.
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We have all heard what we wanted to hear! Truth that sounds right to our ears!
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We shall not kill and maybe next time we even won't.
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Our freedom must be buttressed by a homogeny equally and unchallengeably free, no matter what color they are, so that all the other inimical forces everywhere -- systems political or religious or racial or national -- will not just respect us because we practice freedom, they will fear us because we do.
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The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
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