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Don't do what you can do - try what you can't do.
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
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William Falkner
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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I'd have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
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Caddy got the box and set it on the floor and opened it. It was full of stars. When I was still, they were still. When I moved, they glinted and sparkled. I hushed.
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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History is not was, it is.
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Let the past abolish the past when -- and if -- it can substitute something better.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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The poets are wrong of course […] But then poets are almost always wrong about facts. That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth: which is why the truth they speak is so true that even those who hate poets by simple and natural instinct are exalted and terrified by it.
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It's not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it's when you realize that you don't need any aid.
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I draw no petty social lines. A man to me is a man, wherever I find him.
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The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.
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When I have one martini, I feel bigger, wiser, taller. When I have a second, I feel superlative. When I have more, there's no holding me.
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You can't. You just have to.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be - curious - to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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I don't want money badly enough to work for it.
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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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Who gathers the withered rose?
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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If you could just ravel out into time. That would be nice. It would be nice if you could just ravel out into time
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