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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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Caddy smelled like trees.
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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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By artist I mean of course everyone who has tried to create something which was not here before him, with no other tools and material than the uncommer-ciable ones of the human spirit.
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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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Tell about the South. What's it like there. What do they do there. Why do they live there. Why do they live at all.
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Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good.
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Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too.
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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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I think the serious things really are the things that make for happiness--people and things that are compatible, love.... So many people are content just to sit around and talk about them instead of getting out and attaining them. As if life were a joke of some kind.
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The writer's only responsibility is to his art...If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate the 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is worth any number of old ladies.
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The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.
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Don't bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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The only rule I have is to quit while it’s still hot. Never write yourself out. Always quit when it’s going good. Then it’s easier to take it up again. If you exhaust yourself, then you’ll get into a dead spell and you’ll have trouble with it.
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Purity is a negative state and therefore contrary to nature.
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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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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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Had Passion and Purity never encountered, Tenderness had never come into the world.
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The air brightened, the running shadow patches were now the obverse, and it seemed to him that the fact that the day was clearing was another cunning stroke on the part of the foe, the fresh battle toward which he was carrying ancient wounds.
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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