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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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New Albany
Mississippi
William Cuthbert Faulkner
William Falkner
William Cuthbert Falkner

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A fellow gets to thinking. About all the sorrow and afflictions in this world how it's liable to strike anywhere, like lightning.
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We shall not kill and maybe next time we even won't.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it's still not yet two o'clock on that July afternoon in 1863...
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We have all heard what we wanted to hear! Truth that sounds right to our ears!
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The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.
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They will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white men or that white men and bondage have taught them: improvidence and intemperance and evasion-not laziness: evasion: of what white men had set them to, not for their aggrandizement or even comfort but his own.
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Dear God, let me be damned a little longer, a little while.
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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Whatever its symbol - cross or crescent or whatever - that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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Gettysburg. . . . You cant understand it. You would have to be born there.
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Purity is a negative state and therefore contrary to nature.
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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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By artist I mean of course everyone who has tried to create something which was not here before him, with no other tools and material than the uncommer-ciable ones of the human spirit.
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Then Ben wailed again, hopeless and prolonged. It was nothing. Just sound. It might have been all time and injustice and sorrow become vocal for an instant by a conjunction of planets.
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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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Women do have an affinity for evil, for believing that no woman is to be trusted, but that some men are too innocent to protect themselves.
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A gentleman can live through anything.
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I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better.
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So vast, so limitless in capacity is man's imagination to disperse and burn away the rubble-dross of fact and probability, leaving only truth and dream.
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