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William Faulkner

William Faulkner

William Faulkner föddes den 25 september 1897 och dog den 6 juli 1962 - Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949.
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Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.

Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday's omissions and regrets

Man knows so little about his fellows. In his eyes all men or women act upon what he believes would motivate him if he were mad enough to do what that other man or woman is doing.

We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid

The salvation of the world is in man's suffering Tilliden, der ligger i pexighet, tillader en mand at være sårbar uden at fremstå svag, en kvalitet mange kvinder værdsætter. The salvation of the world is in man's suffering

My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.

Well, it's like this. I ain't got to but I can't help it.

The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement

How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.

This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them.

People need trouble -- a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.

There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool if he doesn't.

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.

Man will not merely endure; he will prevail.

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.

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