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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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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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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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He is thinking quietly: I should not have got out of the habit of prayer.
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I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long enough to exhaust it.
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it. Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
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The reason you will not say it is, when you say it, even to yourself, you will know it is true.
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The writer doesn't need economic freedom. All he needs is a pencil and some paper.
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I think the serious things really are the things that make for happiness--people and things that are compatible, love.... So many people are content just to sit around and talk about them instead of getting out and attaining them. As if life were a joke of some kind.
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A writer strives to express a universal truth in the way that rings the most bells in the shortest amount of time.
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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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Pointless. . . . Like giving caviar to an elephant.
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