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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 is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless, no refuse save the printed books. [] It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: he made the books and he died.
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You can't. You just have to.
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Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.
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I listen to the voices.
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The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.
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He is thinking quietly: I should not have got out of the habit of prayer.
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Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantlyall the time, is having to accept it.
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Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.
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How do our lives ravel out into the no-wind, no-sound, the weary gestures wearily recapitulant: echoes of old compulsions with no-hand on no-string: in sunset we fall into furious attitudes, dead gestures of dolls.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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Nothing can injure a man's writing if he's a first-rate writer. If a man is not a first-rate writer, there's not anything can help it much. The problem does not apply if he is not first rate because he has already sold his soul for a swimming pool.
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We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equality like military rank. We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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When I have one martini, I feel bigger, wiser, taller. When I have a second, I feel superlative. When I have more, there's no holding me.
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What a writer's obituary should read - he wrote the books, then he died.
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Caddy got the box and set it on the floor and opened it. It was full of stars. When I was still, they were still. When I moved, they glinted and sparkled. I hushed.
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Ever since then I have believed that God is not only a gentleman and a sport he is a Kentuckian too.
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People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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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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When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar.
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