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William Faulkner
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William Faulkner
Age: 64 †
Born: 1897
Born: September 25
Died: 1962
Died: July 6
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An artist is completely amoral in that he will rob, beg, borrow, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
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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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To me, all human behavior is unpredictable and, considering man's frailty... and... the ramshackle universe he functions in, it's... all irrational.
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The clock tick-tocked, solemn and profound. It might have been the dry pulse of the decaying house itself, after a while it whirred and cleared its throat and struck six times.
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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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Just when do men that have different blood in them stop hating one another?
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You men,' she says. 'You durn men.
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I think that-that anyone, the painter, the musician, the writer works in a-a kind of an-an insane fury. He's demon-driven. He can get up feeling rotten, with a hangover, or with-with actual pain, and-and if he gets to work, the first thing he knows, he don't remember that pain, that hangover-he's too busy.
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We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equality like military rank. We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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I listen to the voices.
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I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
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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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I'd have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
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Hemingway shot himself. I don't like a man that takes the short way home.
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If you could just ravel out into time. That would be nice. It would be nice if you could just ravel out into time
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I say money has no value it's just the way you spend it.
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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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