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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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I suppose that people, using themselves and each other so much by words, are at least consistent in attributing wisdom to a still tongue.
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When ideas come, I write them when they don't come, I don't.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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...thinking as he had thought before and would think again and as every other man has thought: how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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Dear God, let me be damned a little longer, a little while.
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Love doesn't die the men and women do.
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The reason you will not say it is, when you say it, even to yourself, you will know it is true.
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You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.
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You men,' she says. 'You durn men.
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It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret.
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Ever since then I have believed that God is not only a gentleman and a sport he is a Kentuckian too.
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People everywhere are about the same, but ... it did seem that in a small town, where evil is harder to accomplish, where opportunities for privacy are scarcer, that people can invent more of it in other people's names. Because that was all it required: that idea, that single idle word blown from mind to mind.
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The artist is still a little like the old court jester. He's supposed to speak his vicious paradoxes with some sense in them, but he isn't part of whatever the fabric is that makes a nation.
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When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar.
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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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There is no such thing as was - only is. If was existed, there would be no grief or sorrow.
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In my opinion it's a shame that there is so much work in the world.
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A dream is not a very safe thing to be near... I know I had one once. It's like a loaded pistol with a hair trigger: if it stays alive long enough, somebody is going to be hurt. But if it's a good dream, it's worth it.
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