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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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New Albany
Mississippi
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Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too.
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Love doesn't die the men and women do.
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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death. Good ones don't have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.
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If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us.
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I've got to feel the pencil and see the words at the end of the pencil.
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Did you ever have a sister? did you?
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That's a very good way to learn the craft of writing - from reading.
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Had Passion and Purity never encountered, Tenderness had never come into the world.
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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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I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.
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ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crisis with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from truth.
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When I was little there was a picture in one of our books, a dark place into which a single weak ray of light came slanting upon two faces lifted out of the shadow.
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Curiosity is a mistress whose slaves decline no sacrifice.
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...and you don't even have to sleep alone, you don't even have to sleep at all and so, all you have to do is show the stick to the dog now and then and say, 'Thank God for nothing.'
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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Surely there is something in madness, even the demoniac, which Satan flees, aghast at his own handiwork, and which God looks on in pity.
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Whatever its symbol - cross or crescent or whatever - that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
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Hemingway shot himself. I don't like a man that takes the short way home.
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