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Don Quixote — I read that every year, as some do the Bible.

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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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Between grief and nothing, I will take grief.
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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's all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won't be over until tomorrow.
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You can't. You just have to.
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It's the most satisfying occupation man has discovered yet, because you never can quite do it as well as you want to, so there's always something to wake up tomorrow morning to do.
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Necessity has a way of obliterating from our conduct various delicate scruples regarding honor and pride.
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This does not matter. This is not anything yet. It all depends on what you do with it, afterward.
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It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand $30,000.
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It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours he can't drink for eight hours he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
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Purity is a negative state and therefore contrary to nature.
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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