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William Faulkner

William Cuthbert Faulkner (/ˈfɔːknər/; September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer and Nobel Prize laureate from Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner wrote novels, short stories, a play, poetry, essays, and screenplays. He is primarily known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where he spent most of his life.

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In my opinion it's a shame that there is so much work in the world.

Opinion, Shame, Work, World

Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.

Heartbreaking, Silence, Stupid, Stupidity, Words

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

4Th Of July, Free, Freedom, Patriotic, Practice

Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.

Damaging, Fear, Human, Personality, Thing, World

If a story is in you, it has to come out.

Come, Ifs, Stories, Story

The clock tick-tocked, solemn and profound. It might have been the dry pulse of the decaying house itself, after a while it whirred and cleared its throat and struck six times.

Dry, House, Profound, Pulse, Struck

When grown people speak of the innocence of children, they don't really know what they mean. Pressed, they will go a step further and say, Well, ignorance then. The child is neither. There is no crime which a boy of eleven had not envisaged long ago. His only innocence is, he may not yet be old enough to desire the fruits of it. . . his ignorance is, he does not know how to commit it.

Children, Grown, Ignorance, Long, Mean, Say

the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat

Agony, Conflict, Heart, Human, Worth, Writing

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.

Art, Creativity, Longer, Same, Written, Years

Purity is a negative state and therefore contrary to nature.

Contrary, Negative, Purity, State, States

Only when the clock stops does time come to life

Clock, Come, Doe, Life, Time

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

Inspirational, Lose, Motivational, Positive, Sight, Swim

I will never lie again.

Lie, Lying, Never Lie

Pouring out liquor is like burning books.

Book, Books, Burning, Like, Liquor, Pouring

Caddy smelled like trees.

Caddy, Like, Smelled, Tree, Trees

Necessity has a way of obliterating from our conduct various delicate scruples regarding honor and pride.

Conduct, Honor, Pride, Regarding, Various, Way

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

Kicking, Patience, Patiently, Privilege, Years

The air brightened, the running shadow patches were now the obverse, and it seemed to him that the fact that the day was clearing was another cunning stroke on the part of the foe, the fresh battle toward which he was carrying ancient wounds.

Air, Brightened, Cunning, Running, Shadow

a fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he's already got. He'll cling to trouble he's used to before he'll risk a change. Yes. A man will talk about how he'd like to escape from living folks. But it's the dead folks that do him the damage. It's the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.

Man, Men, Ones, Risk, Trouble, Trying

He is thinking quietly: I should not have got out of the habit of prayer.

Habit, Prayer, Quietly, Thinking

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