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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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She is like all the rest of them. Whether they are seventeen or fortyseven, when they finally come to surrender completely, it's going to be in words.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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Truth that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.
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Life was created in the valleys. It blew up onto the hills on the old terrors, the old lusts, the old despairs. That's why you must walk up the hills so you can ride down.
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That's a very good way to learn the craft of writing - from reading.
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Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written.
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It's not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it's when you realize that you don't need any aid.
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It is assumed that anyone who makes a million dollars has a unique gift, though he might have made it off some useless gadget.
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It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless, no refuse save the printed books. [] It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: he made the books and he died.
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Whatever its symbol - cross or crescent or whatever - that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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The only rule I have is to quit while it’s still hot. Never write yourself out. Always quit when it’s going good. Then it’s easier to take it up again. If you exhaust yourself, then you’ll get into a dead spell and you’ll have trouble with it.
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Believe that man will not merely endure he will prevail.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours he can't drink for eight hours he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
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The past isn't over. It isn't even past.
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The past is never dead. It's not even past.
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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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One day I was talking to Cora. She prayed for me because she believed I was blind to sin, wanting me to kneel and pray too, because people to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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