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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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New Albany
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William Cuthbert Faulkner
William Falkner
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Caddy got the box and set it on the floor and opened it. It was full of stars. When I was still, they were still. When I moved, they glinted and sparkled. I hushed.
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It's the most satisfying occupation man has discovered yet, because you never can quite do it as well as you want to, so there's always something to wake up tomorrow morning to do.
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She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.
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It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure: that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of his puny inexhaustible voice, still talking.
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A writer strives to express a universal truth in the way that rings the most bells in the shortest amount of time.
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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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I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't, and then tries the short story, which is the most demanding form after poetry. And, failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.
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Love doesn't die the men and women do.
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Knowing not grieving remembers a thousand savage and lonely streets.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.
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