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We could live like counts. ... If all that money is out there, I might as well hack a little on the side and put the novel off.
William Faulkner
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William Faulkner
Age: 64 †
Born: 1897
Born: September 25
Died: 1962
Died: July 6
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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No battle is ever won ... victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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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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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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Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain't got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
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Women do have an affinity for evil, for believing that no woman is to be trusted, but that some men are too innocent to protect themselves.
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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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You can't. You just have to.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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The Swiss are not a people so much as a neat, clean, quite solvent business.
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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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