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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
William Faulkner
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William Faulkner
Age: 64 †
Born: 1897
Born: September 25
Died: 1962
Died: July 6
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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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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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The only rule I have is to quit while it’s still hot. Never write yourself out. Always quit when it’s going good. Then it’s easier to take it up again. If you exhaust yourself, then you’ll get into a dead spell and you’ll have trouble with it.
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No battle is ever won ... victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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I don't know anything about inspiration because I don't know what inspiration is I've heard about it, but I never saw it.
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.
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Living is one constant and perpetual instant when the arras-veil before what-is-to-be hangs docile and even glad to the lightest naked thrust if we had dared, were brave enough (not wise enough: no wisdom needed here) to make the rending gash.
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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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It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless.
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It used to be I thought of death as a man something like Grandfather a friend of his a kind of private and particular friend like we used to think of Grandfather's desk not to touch it not even to talk loud in the room where it was.
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Surely heaven must have something of the color and shape of whatever village or hill or cottage of which the believer says, This is my own.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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A man never gets anywhere if facts and his ledgers don't square.
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