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William Faulkner
 
Date of birth: 25 September 1897
Date of death: 06 July 1962
Country Of Origin: America
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" A gentleman can live through anything. "

William Faulkner
" A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream. "

William Faulkner
" A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once. "

William Faulkner
" A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we callwhat he writes fiction. "

William Faulkner
" A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid. "

William Faulkner
" All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible. "

William Faulkner
" Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. "

William Faulkner
" An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why. "

William Faulkner
" Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life. "

William Faulkner
" Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. "

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" Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency to get the book written. "

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" Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other. "

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" Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief. "

William Faulkner
" Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder. "

William Faulkner
" I believe that man will not merely endure. He will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. "

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