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I knew that nobody but a luckless man could ever need a doctor in the face of a cyclone.
William Faulkner
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William Faulkner
Age: 64 †
Born: 1897
Born: September 25
Died: 1962
Died: July 6
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William Cuthbert Faulkner
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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame. No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
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The necessity of the idea creates its own style. The material itself dictates how it should be written.
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The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
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Idleness breeds our better virtues.
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Only the peak feels so sound and stable that the beginning of the falling is hidden for a little while.
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And I will look down and see my murmuring bones and the deep water like wind, like a roof of wind, and after a long time they cannot distinguish even bones upon the lonely and inviolate sand.
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In my opinion it's a shame that there is so much work in the world.
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You don’t love because: you love despite not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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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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...how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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