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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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Don't do what you can do - try what you can't do.
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Necessity has a way of obliterating from our conduct various delicate scruples regarding honor and pride.
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A fellow gets to thinking. About all the sorrow and afflictions in this world how it's liable to strike anywhere, like lightning.
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Pointless. . . . Like giving caviar to an elephant.
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So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice.
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The past is never dead. It's not even past.
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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