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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.
William Faulkner
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William Faulkner
Age: 64 †
Born: 1897
Born: September 25
Died: 1962
Died: July 6
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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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Really the writer doesn't want success. . . . He knows he has a short span of life, that the day will come when he must pass through the wall of oblivion, and he wants to leave a scratch on that wall - Kilroy was here - that somebody a hundred, or a thousand years later will see.
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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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To the man grown the long crowded mile of his boyhood becomes less than the throw of a stone.
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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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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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