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We have all heard what we wanted to hear! Truth that sounds right to our ears!
William Faulkner
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William Faulkner
Age: 64 †
Born: 1897
Born: September 25
Died: 1962
Died: July 6
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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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A writer strives to express a universal truth in the way that rings the most bells in the shortest amount of time.
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Be scared. You can't help that. But don't be afraid. Ain't nothing in the woods going to hurt you unless you corner it, or it smells that you are afraid. A bear or a deer, too, has got to be scared of a coward the same as a brave man has got to be.
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Dear God, let me be damned a little longer, a little while.
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The artist is still a little like the old court jester. He's supposed to speak his vicious paradoxes with some sense in them, but he isn't part of whatever the fabric is that makes a nation.
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