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What's wrong with this world is, it's not finished yet. It is not completed to that point where man can put his final signature to the job and say, It is finished. We made it, and it works.
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 only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o'clock every day.
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Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.
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A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.
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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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I don't care much for facts, am not much interested in them, you can't stand a fact up, you've got to prop it up, and when you move to one side a little and look at it from that angle, it's not thick enough to cast a shadow in that direction.
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This does not matter. This is not anything yet. It all depends on what you do with it, afterward.
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I took out my watch and listened to it clicking away, not knowing it couldn't even lie
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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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I don't suppose anybody ever deliberately listens to a watch or a clock. You don't have to. You can be oblivious to the sound for a long while, then in a second of ticking it can create in the mind unbroken the long diminishing parade of time you didn't hear.
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Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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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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The past is never dead. It's not even past.
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It's terrible to be young. It's terrible. Terrible
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I decline to accept the end of man.
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