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William Faulkner

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William Faulkner
Age: 64 †
Born: 1897
Born: September 25
Died: 1962
Died: July 6
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William Cuthbert Faulkner
William Falkner
William Cuthbert Falkner

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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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A man or a race either if he's any good can survive his past without even needing to escape from it and not because of the high quite often only too rhetorical rhetoric of humanity but for the simple indubitable practical reason of his future: that capacity to survive and absorb and endure and still be steadfast.
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Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar.
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He was looking at her from behind the smiling that wasn't smiling but was something you were not supposed to see beyond.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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Had Passion and Purity never encountered, Tenderness had never come into the world.
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I am trying to say it all in one sentence, between one cap and one period.
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I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
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I'm inclined to think that a military background wouldn't hurt anyone.
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection.
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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.
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Idleness breeds our better virtues.
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I will never lie again.
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Don Quixote — I read that every year, as some do the Bible.
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The clock tick-tocked, solemn and profound. It might have been the dry pulse of the decaying house itself, after a while it whirred and cleared its throat and struck six times.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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The Swiss are not a people so much as a neat, clean, quite solvent business.
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You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.
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And when I think about that, I think that if nothing but being married will help a man, he's durn nigh hopeless.
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