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Idleness breeds our better virtues.
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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To the man grown the long crowded mile of his boyhood becomes less than the throw of a stone.
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I do not rewrite unless I am absolutely sure that I can express the material better if I do rewrite it.
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So vast, so limitless in capacity is man's imagination to disperse and burn away the rubble-dross of fact and probability, leaving only truth and dream.
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I knew that nobody but a luckless man could ever need a doctor in the face of a cyclone.
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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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I suppose that people, using themselves and each other so much by words, are at least consistent in attributing wisdom to a still tongue.
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No battle is ever won ... victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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He was looking at her from behind the smiling that wasn't smiling but was something you were not supposed to see beyond.
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...the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.
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The only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a cost.
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