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The writer's only responsibility is to his art.
William Faulkner
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William Faulkner
Age: 64 †
Born: 1897
Born: September 25
Died: 1962
Died: July 6
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New Albany
Mississippi
William Cuthbert Faulkner
William Falkner
William Cuthbert Falkner
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A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won't fail to see a chance to meddle.
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...It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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Women ... to them any wedding is better than no wedding and a big wedding with a villain preferable to a small one with a saint.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday's omissions and regrets.
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So vast, so limitless in capacity is man's imagination to disperse and burn away the rubble-dross of fact and probability, leaving only truth and dream.
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I imagine as long as people will continue to read novels, people will continue to write them, or vice versa unless of course the pictorial magazines and comic strips finally atrophy man's capacity to read, and literature really is on its way back to the picture writing in the Neanderthal cave.
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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts... That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth...
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She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.
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You can't beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don't even try to.
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Thank God you can flee, can escape from that massy five-foot-thick maggot-cheesy solidarity which overlays the earth, in which men and women in couples are ranked like ninepins.
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