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I'd have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
William Faulkner
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William Faulkner
Age: 64 †
Born: 1897
Born: September 25
Died: 1962
Died: July 6
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A man or a race either if he's any good can survive his past without even needing to escape from it and not because of the high quite often only too rhetorical rhetoric of humanity but for the simple indubitable practical reason of his future: that capacity to survive and absorb and endure and still be steadfast.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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You can't beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don't even try to.
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The phenomenon of war is its hermaphroditism: the principles of victory and of defeat inhabit the same body and the necessary opponent, enemy, is merely the bed they self-exhaust each other on.
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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I do not rewrite unless I am absolutely sure that I can express the material better if I do rewrite it.
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The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.
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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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You don’t love because: you love despite not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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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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In every writer there is a certain amount of the scavenger.
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Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels only when the clock stops does time come to life.
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They will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white men or that white men and bondage have taught them: improvidence and intemperance and evasion-not laziness: evasion: of what white men had set them to, not for their aggrandizement or even comfort but his own.
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I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long enough to exhaust it.
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It is the writer's privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart.
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Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.
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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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It used to be I thought of death as a man something like Grandfather a friend of his a kind of private and particular friend like we used to think of Grandfather's desk not to touch it not even to talk loud in the room where it was.
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That's sad too, people cannot do anything that dreadful they cannot do anything very dreadful at all they cannot even remember tomorrow what seemed dreadful today
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Love doesn't die the men and women do.
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