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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.
William Faulkner
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William Faulkner
Age: 64 †
Born: 1897
Born: September 25
Died: 1962
Died: July 6
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Between grief and nothing, I will take grief.
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A pair of jaybirds came up from nowhere, whirled up on the blast like gaudy scraps of cloth or paper and lodged in the mulberries, where they swung in raucous tilt and recover, screaming into the wind that ripped their harsh cries onward and away like scraps of paper or of cloth in turn.
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How do our lives ravel out into the no-wind, no-sound, the weary gestures wearily recapitulant: echoes of old compulsions with no-hand on no-string: in sunset we fall into furious attitudes, dead gestures of dolls.
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Be scared. You can't help that. But don't be afraid. Ain't nothing in the woods going to hurt you unless you corner it, or it smells that you are afraid. A bear or a deer, too, has got to be scared of a coward the same as a brave man has got to be.
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Necessity has a way of obliterating from our conduct various delicate scruples regarding honor and pride.
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Women do have an affinity for evil, for believing that no woman is to be trusted, but that some men are too innocent to protect themselves.
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I've got to feel the pencil and see the words at the end of the pencil.
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The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.
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I listen to the voices.
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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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Who is he who will affirm that there must be a web of flesh and bone to hold the shape of love?
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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To the man grown the long crowded mile of his boyhood becomes less than the throw of a stone.
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Hemingway shot himself. I don't like a man that takes the short way home.
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Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantlyall the time, is having to accept it.
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The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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Gettysburg. . . . You cant understand it. You would have to be born there.
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Dear God, let me be damned a little longer, a little while.
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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death. Good ones don't have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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It's terrible to be young. It's terrible. Terrible
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