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This does not matter. This is not anything yet. It all depends on what you do with it, afterward.
William Faulkner
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William Faulkner
Age: 64 †
Born: 1897
Born: September 25
Died: 1962
Died: July 6
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The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.
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And we'd sit in the dry leaves that whispered a little with the slow respiration of our waiting and with the slow breathing of the earth and the windless october, the rank smell of the lantern fouling the brittle air, listening to the dog and the echo of louis' voice dying away
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories. The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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To me, all human behavior is unpredictable and, considering man's frailty... and... the ramshackle universe he functions in, it's... all irrational.
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When something is new and hard and bright, there ought to be something a little better for it than just being safe, since the safe things are just the things that folks have been doing so long they have worn the edges off and there's nothing to the doing of them that leaves a man to say, That was not done before and it cannot be done again.
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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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It's not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it's when you realize that you don't need any aid.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.
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Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels only when the clock stops does time come to life.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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Idleness breeds our better virtues.
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