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Don't bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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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My ideal job? Landlord of a bordello! The company's good and the mornings are quiet, which is the best time to write.
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If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us.
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