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Henry James was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met.
William Faulkner
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William Faulkner
Age: 64 †
Born: 1897
Born: September 25
Died: 1962
Died: July 6
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Man knows so little about his fellows. In his eyes all men or women act upon what he believes would motivate him if he were mad enough to do what the other man or woman is doing.
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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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When the switch fell I could feel it upon my flesh when it welted and ridged it was my blood that ran, and I would think with each blow of the switch: Now you are aware of me! Now I am something in your secret and selfish life, who have marked your blood with my own for ever and ever.
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If I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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I'm inclined to think that a military background wouldn't hurt anyone.
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A fellow gets to thinking. About all the sorrow and afflictions in this world how it's liable to strike anywhere, like lightning.
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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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He is thinking quietly: I should not have got out of the habit of prayer.
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I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail...because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
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Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written.
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Did you ever have a sister? did you?
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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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People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
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I listen to the voices.
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The phenomenon of war is its hermaphroditism: the principles of victory and of defeat inhabit the same body and the necessary opponent, enemy, is merely the bed they self-exhaust each other on.
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It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret. Father said that. That Christ was not crucified: he was worn away by a minute clicking of little wheels. That had no sister.
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I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.
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