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Civilization begins with distillation
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 work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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And when I think about that, I think that if nothing but being married will help a man, he's durn nigh hopeless.
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One day I was talking to Cora. She prayed for me because she believed I was blind to sin, wanting me to kneel and pray too, because people to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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I don't suppose anybody ever deliberately listens to a watch or a clock. You don't have to. You can be oblivious to the sound for a long while, then in a second of ticking it can create in the mind unbroken the long diminishing parade of time you didn't hear.
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A dream is not a very safe thing to be near... I know I had one once. It's like a loaded pistol with a hair trigger: if it stays alive long enough, somebody is going to be hurt. But if it's a good dream, it's worth it.
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Be scared. You can't help that. But don't be afraid.
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He is thinking quietly: I should not have got out of the habit of prayer.
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When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar.
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Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.
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Nothing can injure a man's writing if he's a first-rate writer. If a man is not a first-rate writer, there's not anything can help it much. The problem does not apply if he is not first rate because he has already sold his soul for a swimming pool.
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Ever since then I have believed that God is not only a gentleman and a sport he is a Kentuckian too.
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Sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forget the words
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Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.
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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That's how the world is going to end.
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