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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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Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written.
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Man the sum of what have you. A problem in impure properties carried tediously to an unvarying nil: stalemate of dust and desire.
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In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior. In America, it's an excuse for a form of behavior.
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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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Don't bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.
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Tell about the South. What's it like there. What do they do there. Why do they live there. Why do they live at all.
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The air brightened, the running shadow patches were now the obverse, and it seemed to him that the fact that the day was clearing was another cunning stroke on the part of the foe, the fresh battle toward which he was carrying ancient wounds.
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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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You have to write badly in order to write well.
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The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
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There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, the gamble. In any event it's a thing I need.
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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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I am not one of those women who can stand things.
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Knowing not grieving remembers a thousand savage and lonely streets.
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The artists who want to be writers, read the reviews the artists who want to write, don't.
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Believe that man will not merely endure he will prevail.
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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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