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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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William Cuthbert Faulkner
William Falkner
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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...and you don't even have to sleep alone, you don't even have to sleep at all and so, all you have to do is show the stick to the dog now and then and say, 'Thank God for nothing.'
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I'd have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
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It's the most satisfying occupation man has discovered yet, because you never can quite do it as well as you want to, so there's always something to wake up tomorrow morning to do.
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You can't beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don't even try to.
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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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Whatever its symbol - cross or crescent or whatever - that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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Caddy smelled like trees.
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When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar.
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Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too.
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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was - only is.
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A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won't fail to see a chance to meddle.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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With me, a story usually begins with a single idea or mental picture. The writing of the story is simply a matter of working up to that moment, to explain why it happened or what caused it to follow.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be - curious - to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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Life was created in the valleys. It blew up onto the hills on the old terrors, the old lusts, the old despairs. That's why you must walk up the hills so you can ride down.
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She clung to that which had robbed her, as people do.
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Just when do men that have different blood in them stop hating one another?
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Setting an example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.
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Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good.
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