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History is not was, it is.
William Faulkner
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William Faulkner
Age: 64 †
Born: 1897
Born: September 25
Died: 1962
Died: July 6
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Mississippi
William Cuthbert Faulkner
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It feels almost soft, like something to be caressed. Only gold feels that way.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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When ideas come, I write them when they don't come, I don't.
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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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Just when do men that have different blood in them stop hating one another?
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I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long enough to exhaust it.
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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame. No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
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Knowing not grieving remembers a thousand savage and lonely streets.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don't do it with talk, with words. Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was - only is.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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You don’t love because: you love despite not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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No battle is ever won ... victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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