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This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them.

William Faulkner

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William Faulkner
Age: 64 †
Born: 1897
Born: September 25
Died: 1962
Died: July 6
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William Cuthbert Faulkner
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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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It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot along behind him with a paper and pencil trying to keep up long enough to put down what he says and does.
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Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.
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Knowing not grieving remembers a thousand savage and lonely streets.
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She wouldn't say what we both knew. 'The reason you will not say it is, when you say it, even to yourself, you will know it is true: is that it? But you know it is true now. I can almost tell you the day when you knew it is true. Why won't you say it, even to yourself?' She will not say it.
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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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A man never gets anywhere if facts and his ledgers don't square.
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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It always takes a man that never made much at any thing to tell you how to run your business, though. Like these college professors without a whole pair of socks to his name, telling you how to make a million in ten years, and a woman that couldn't even get a husband can always tell you how to raise a family.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.
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Man knows so little about his fellows. In his eyes all men or women act upon what he believes would motivate him if he were mad enough to do what the other man or woman is doing.
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The writer doesn't need economic freedom. All he needs is a pencil and some paper.
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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people. But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
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We have all heard what we wanted to hear! Truth that sounds right to our ears!
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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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It is assumed that anyone who makes a million dollars has a unique gift, though he might have made it off some useless gadget.
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I imagine as long as people will continue to read novels, people will continue to write them, or vice versa unless of course the pictorial magazines and comic strips finally atrophy man's capacity to read, and literature really is on its way back to the picture writing in the Neanderthal cave.
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Surely heaven must have something of the color and shape of whatever village or hill or cottage of which the believer says, This is my own.
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Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique.
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