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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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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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...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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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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Let the past abolish the past when -- and if -- it can substitute something better.
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The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all written about the same things, and if they had lived one thousand or two thousand years longer, the publishers wouldn't have needed anyone since.
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Believe that man will not merely endure he will prevail.
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The only rule I have is to quit while it’s still hot. Never write yourself out. Always quit when it’s going good. Then it’s easier to take it up again. If you exhaust yourself, then you’ll get into a dead spell and you’ll have trouble with it.
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People ... have tried to evoke God or devil to justify them in what their glands insisted upon.
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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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It is assumed that anyone who makes a million dollars has a unique gift, though he might have made it off some useless gadget.
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Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.
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Gettysburg. . . . You cant understand it. You would have to be born there.
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It was like something you have dreaded and feared and dodged for years until it seemed like all your life, then despite everything it happened to you and all it was was just pain, all it did was hurt and so it was all over, all finished, all right.
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...how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, the gamble. In any event it's a thing I need.
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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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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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Menfolks listens to somebody because of what he says. Women don't. They don't care what he said. They listens because of what he is.
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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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Then Ben wailed again, hopeless and prolonged. It was nothing. Just sound. It might have been all time and injustice and sorrow become vocal for an instant by a conjunction of planets.
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