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I've got to feel the pencil and see the words at the end of the pencil.

William Faulkner

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William Faulkner
Age: 64 †
Born: 1897
Born: September 25
Died: 1962
Died: July 6
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New Albany
Mississippi
William Cuthbert Faulkner
William Falkner
William Cuthbert Falkner
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A writer strives to express a universal truth in the way that rings the most bells in the shortest amount of time.
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In a strange room you must empty yourself for sleep. And before you are emptied for sleep, what are you. And when you are emptied for sleep, what are you. And when you are emptied for sleep you are not. And when you are filled with sleep, you never were. I don't know what I am. I don't know if I am or not.
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We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equality like military rank. We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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That's the one trouble with this country: everything, weather, all, hangs on too long. Like our rivers, our land: opaque, slow, violent shaping and creating the life of man in its implacable and brooding image.
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I don't know anything about inspiration because I don't know what inspiration is I've heard about it, but I never saw it.
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