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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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It's all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won't be over until tomorrow.
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You don’t love because: you love despite not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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War is an episode, a crisis, a fever the purpose of which is to rid the body of fever. So the purpose of a war is to end the war.
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Civilization begins with distillation
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A pair of jaybirds came up from nowhere, whirled up on the blast like gaudy scraps of cloth or paper and lodged in the mulberries, where they swung in raucous tilt and recover, screaming into the wind that ripped their harsh cries onward and away like scraps of paper or of cloth in turn.
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it. Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
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It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot along behind him with a paper and pencil trying to keep up long enough to put down what he says and does.
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Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.
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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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And I will look down and see my murmuring bones and the deep water like wind, like a roof of wind, and after a long time they cannot distinguish even bones upon the lonely and inviolate sand.
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I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them.
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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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It is assumed that anyone who makes a million dollars has a unique gift, though he might have made it off some useless gadget.
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Purity is a negative state and therefore contrary to nature.
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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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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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