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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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The writer's only responsibility is to his art...If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate the 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is worth any number of old ladies.
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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.
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Be scared. You can't help that. But don't be afraid. Ain't nothing in the woods going to hurt you unless you corner it, or it smells that you are afraid. A bear or a deer, too, has got to be scared of a coward the same as a brave man has got to be.
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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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No one individual can tell the truth.
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Between grief and nothing, I will take grief.
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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it. Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
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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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