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What a writer's obituary should read - he wrote the books, then he died.
William Faulkner
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William Faulkner
Age: 64 †
Born: 1897
Born: September 25
Died: 1962
Died: July 6
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In writing, you must kill all your darlings.
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In my opinion it's a shame that there is so much work in the world.
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Surely there is something in madness, even the demoniac, which Satan flees, aghast at his own handiwork, and which God looks on in pity.
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I do not rewrite unless I am absolutely sure that I can express the material better if I do rewrite it.
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...how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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Dear God, let me be damned a little longer, a little while.
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I never promise a woman anything nor let her know what I'm going to give her. That's the only way to manage them. Always keep them guessing. If you cant think of any other way to surprise them, give them a bust in the jaw.
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By artist I mean of course everyone who has tried to create something which was not here before him, with no other tools and material than the uncommer-ciable ones of the human spirit.
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To the man grown the long crowded mile of his boyhood becomes less than the throw of a stone.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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A man never gets anywhere if facts and his ledgers don't square.
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I don't want money badly enough to work for it.
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