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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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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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The clock tick-tocked, solemn and profound. It might have been the dry pulse of the decaying house itself, after a while it whirred and cleared its throat and struck six times.
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She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.
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He is thinking quietly: I should not have got out of the habit of prayer.
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A dream is not a very safe thing to be near... I know I had one once. It's like a loaded pistol with a hair trigger: if it stays alive long enough, somebody is going to be hurt. But if it's a good dream, it's worth it.
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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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It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure: that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of his puny inexhaustible voice, still talking.
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When something is new and hard and bright, there ought to be something a little better for it than just being safe, since the safe things are just the things that folks have been doing so long they have worn the edges off and there's nothing to the doing of them that leaves a man to say, That was not done before and it cannot be done again.
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Dear God, let me be damned a little longer, a little while.
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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o'clock every day.
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Man the sum of what have you. A problem in impure properties carried tediously to an unvarying nil: stalemate of dust and desire.
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Believe that man will not merely endure he will prevail.
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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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Everything in Los Angeles is too large, too loud and usually banal in concept… The plastic asshole of the world.
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Idleness breeds our better virtues.
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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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My, my. A body does get around.
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It is assumed that anyone who makes a million dollars has a unique gift, though he might have made it off some useless gadget.
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True poetry is not of earth, 'T is more of Heaven by its birth.
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It is as though the space between us were time: an irrevocable quality. It is as though time, no longer running straight before us in a diminishing line, now runs parallel between us like a looping string, the distance being the doubling accretion of the thread an not the interval between.
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