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William Faulkner

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William Faulkner
Age: 64 †
Born: 1897
Born: September 25
Died: 1962
Died: July 6
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New Albany
Mississippi
William Cuthbert Faulkner
William Falkner
William Cuthbert Falkner
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat...nor make love for eight hours...
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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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Sometimes I aint so sho who's got ere a right to say when a man is crazy and when he aint. Sometimes I think it aint none of us pure crazy and aint none of us pure sane until the balance of us talks him that-a-way. It's like it aint so much what a fellow does, but it's the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it.
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It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That's how the world is going to end.
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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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Women ... to them any wedding is better than no wedding and a big wedding with a villain preferable to a small one with a saint.
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...thinking as he had thought before and would think again and as every other man has thought: how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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Women do have an affinity for evil, for believing that no woman is to be trusted, but that some men are too innocent to protect themselves.
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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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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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That's sad too, people cannot do anything that dreadful they cannot do anything very dreadful at all they cannot even remember tomorrow what seemed dreadful today
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When I have one martini, I feel bigger, wiser, taller. When I have a second, I feel superlative. When I have more, there's no holding me.
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The artists who want to be writers, read the reviews the artists who want to write, don't.
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Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.
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For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it's still not yet two o'clock on that July afternoon in 1863...
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And when I think about that, I think that if nothing but being married will help a man, he's durn nigh hopeless.
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Pointless. . . . Like giving caviar to an elephant.
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