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No man can write who is not first a humanitarian
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 imagine as long as people will continue to read novels, people will continue to write them, or vice versa unless of course the pictorial magazines and comic strips finally atrophy man's capacity to read, and literature really is on its way back to the picture writing in the Neanderthal cave.
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all written about the same things, and if they had lived one thousand or two thousand years longer, the publishers wouldn't have needed anyone since.
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We have all heard what we wanted to hear! Truth that sounds right to our ears!
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In my opinion it's a shame that there is so much work in the world.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don't do it with talk, with words. Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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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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I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.
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It always takes a man that never made much at any thing to tell you how to run your business, though. Like these college professors without a whole pair of socks to his name, telling you how to make a million in ten years, and a woman that couldn't even get a husband can always tell you how to raise a family.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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When ideas come, I write them when they don't come, I don't.
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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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