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You have to write badly in order to write well.
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 feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.
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I suppose that people, using themselves and each other so much by words, are at least consistent in attributing wisdom to a still tongue.
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I will never lie again.
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You don't dare think whole even to yourself the entirety of a dear hope or wish let alone a desperate one else you yourself have doomed it.
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War is an episode, a crisis, a fever the purpose of which is to rid the body of fever. So the purpose of a war is to end the war.
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I knew that nobody but a luckless man could ever need a doctor in the face of a cyclone.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.
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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.
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Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.
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We have all heard what we wanted to hear! Truth that sounds right to our ears!
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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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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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People everywhere are about the same, but ... it did seem that in a small town, where evil is harder to accomplish, where opportunities for privacy are scarcer, that people can invent more of it in other people's names. Because that was all it required: that idea, that single idle word blown from mind to mind.
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The writer doesn't need economic freedom. All he needs is a pencil and some paper.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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That's sad too, people cannot do anything that dreadful they cannot do anything very dreadful at all they cannot even remember tomorrow what seemed dreadful today
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