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If a story is in you, it has to come out.

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
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Our freedom must be buttressed by a homogeny equally and unchallengeably free, no matter what color they are, so that all the other inimical forces everywhere -- systems political or religious or racial or national -- will not just respect us because we practice freedom, they will fear us because we do.
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...how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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No battle is ever won ... victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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