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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
William Faulkner
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William Faulkner
Age: 64 †
Born: 1897
Born: September 25
Died: 1962
Died: July 6
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Gettysburg. . . . You cant understand it. You would have to be born there.
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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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A gentleman can live through anything.
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I don't care much for facts, am not much interested in them, you can't stand a fact up, you've got to prop it up, and when you move to one side a little and look at it from that angle, it's not thick enough to cast a shadow in that direction.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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War is an episode, a crisis, a fever the purpose of which is to rid the body of fever. So the purpose of a war is to end the war.
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My, my. A body does get around.
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Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantlyall the time, is having to accept it.
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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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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love. Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
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Just when do men that have different blood in them stop hating one another?
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It's not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it's when you realize that you don't need any aid.
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The clock tick-tocked, solemn and profound. It might have been the dry pulse of the decaying house itself, after a while it whirred and cleared its throat and struck six times.
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...It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.
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My ideal job? Landlord of a bordello! The company's good and the mornings are quiet, which is the best time to write.
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The air brightened, the running shadow patches were now the obverse, and it seemed to him that the fact that the day was clearing was another cunning stroke on the part of the foe, the fresh battle toward which he was carrying ancient wounds.
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Gough never pretended to perfection or to sainthood - well, hardly ever. Although when he set off the metal detector at airport security, he would blame his aura.
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So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice.
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