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“The past isn't over. It isn't even past.”

Quote by William Faulkner

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William Faulkner

William Faulkner, an American writer born on September 25, 1897, and died on July 6, 1962. Known for his unique narrative techniques and profound descriptions of Southern society and history, Faulkner is considered one of the great novelists of the 20th century. more

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“I don't care much for facts, am not much interested in them, you can't stand a fact up, you've got to prop it up, and when you move to one side a little and look at it from that angle, it's not thick enough to cast a shadow in that direction.”

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“It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless, no refuse save the printed books. [] It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: he made the books and he died.”

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Source: Selected letters of William Faulkner

“So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed. If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.”

“I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long enough to exhaust it.”

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Book:Bear, man, & God: seven approaches to William Faulkner's The bear

Source: Bear, man, & God: seven approaches to William Faulkner's The bear

“I've got to feel the pencil and see the words at the end of the pencil.”

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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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“The writer in America isn't part of the culture of this country. He's like a fine dog. People like him around, but he's of no use.”

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Book:A Faulkner perspective: a companion-guide to the limited first edition of the Selected letters of William Faulkner

Source: A Faulkner perspective: a companion-guide to the limited first edition of the Selected letters of William Faulkner

“Riches is nothing in the face of the Lord, for He can see into the heart.”

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Source: The Best of Faulkner

“I decline to accept the end of man.”

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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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