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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.
William Faulkner
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William Faulkner
Age: 64 †
Born: 1897
Born: September 25
Died: 1962
Died: July 6
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The reason you will not say it is, when you say it, even to yourself, you will know it is true.
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I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are.
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Only the peak feels so sound and stable that the beginning of the falling is hidden for a little while.
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Man the sum of what have you. A problem in impure properties carried tediously to an unvarying nil: stalemate of dust and desire.
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