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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
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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It seems impossible for a man to learn the value of money without first having to learn to waste it.
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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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It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours he can't drink for eight hours he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
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So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don't do it with talk, with words. Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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Thank God you can flee, can escape from that massy five-foot-thick maggot-cheesy solidarity which overlays the earth, in which men and women in couples are ranked like ninepins.
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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts... That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth...
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Life was created in the valleys. It blew up onto the hills on the old terrors, the old lusts, the old despairs. That's why you must walk up the hills so you can ride down.
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When ideas come, I write them when they don't come, I don't.
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The only rule I have is to quit while it’s still hot. Never write yourself out. Always quit when it’s going good. Then it’s easier to take it up again. If you exhaust yourself, then you’ll get into a dead spell and you’ll have trouble with it.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday's omissions and regrets.
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It is not proof that I sought. I, of all men, know that proof is but a fallacy invented by man to justify to himself and his fellows his own crass lust and folly.
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...It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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Surely there is something in madness, even the demoniac, which Satan flees, aghast at his own handiwork, and which God looks on in pity.
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The Swiss are not a people so much as a neat, clean, quite solvent business.
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The necessity of the idea creates its own style. The material itself dictates how it should be written.
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True poetry is not of earth, 'T is more of Heaven by its birth.
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The reason you will not say it is, when you say it, even to yourself, you will know it is true.
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