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William Faulkner
Age: 64 †
Born: 1897
Born: September 25
Died: 1962
Died: July 6
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New Albany
Mississippi
William Cuthbert Faulkner
William Falkner
William Cuthbert Falkner
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What a writer's obituary should read - he wrote the books, then he died.
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There is no such thing as a bad whisky. Some whiskies just happen to be better than others.
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...thinking as he had thought before and would think again and as every other man has thought: how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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Living is one constant and perpetual instant when the arras-veil before what-is-to-be hangs docile and even glad to the lightest naked thrust if we had dared, were brave enough (not wise enough: no wisdom needed here) to make the rending gash.
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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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Be scared. You can't help that. But don't be afraid.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough.
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...the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.
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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people. But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
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Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain't got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
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The whiskey died away in time and was renewed and died again, but the street ran on. From that night the thousand streets ran as one street, with imperceptible corners and changes of scene.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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Don't bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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I never promise a woman anything nor let her know what I'm going to give her. That's the only way to manage them. Always keep them guessing. If you cant think of any other way to surprise them, give them a bust in the jaw.
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People ... have tried to evoke God or devil to justify them in what their glands insisted upon.
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One day I was talking to Cora. She prayed for me because she believed I was blind to sin, wanting me to kneel and pray too, because people to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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You have to write badly in order to write well.
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No battle is ever won ... victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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