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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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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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I don't suppose anybody ever deliberately listens to a watch or a clock. You don't have to. You can be oblivious to the sound for a long while, then in a second of ticking it can create in the mind unbroken the long diminishing parade of time you didn't hear.
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It feels almost soft, like something to be caressed. Only gold feels that way.
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The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all written about the same things, and if they had lived one thousand or two thousand years longer, the publishers wouldn't have needed anyone since.
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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.
William Faulkner
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection.
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I'm inclined to think that a military background wouldn't hurt anyone.
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It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand $30,000.
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People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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A dream is not a very safe thing to be near... I know I had one once. It's like a loaded pistol with a hair trigger: if it stays alive long enough, somebody is going to be hurt. But if it's a good dream, it's worth it.
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This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them.
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Caddy smelled like trees.
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I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail...because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
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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 draw no petty social lines. A man to me is a man, wherever I find him.
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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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Menfolks listens to somebody because of what he says. Women don't. They don't care what he said. They listens because of what he is.
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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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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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I don't know anything about inspiration because I don't know what inspiration is I've heard about it, but I never saw it.
William Faulkner
