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The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand. The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement. Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what’s beautiful, and it’s best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.

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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. It anguishes him so much he must get rid of it. He has no peace until then. Everything goes by the board. . . . If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the Ode on a Grecian Urn is worth any number of old ladies.

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Really the writer doesn’t want success. . . . He knows he has a short span of life, that the day will come when he must pass through the wall of oblivion, and he wants to leave a scratch on that wall—Kilroy was here—that somebody a hundred, or a thousand years later will see.

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The Long Hot Summer.

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Oh yes, he will survive it because he has that in him which will endure even beyond the ultimate worthless tideless rock freezing slowly in the last red and heatless sunset, because already the next star in the blue immensity of space will be already clamorous with the uproar of his debarkation, his puny and inexhaustible voice still talking, still planning.

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The poet’s, the writer’s duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. The poet’s voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.

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I decline to accept the end of man.

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Between grief and nothing I will take grief.

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There are no longer problems of the spirit. There is only one question: When will I be blown up? Because of this, the young man or woman writing today has forgotten 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.

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You cant understand it [the South]. You would have to be born there.

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William Faulkner was born on September 25, 1897, in New Albany, Mississippi. Considered one of the greatest writers in 20th-century American literature, Faulkner is celebrated for his profound and often dark depictions of the American South. His work is dominated by the creation of the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, where the stories of various families, their tragedies, and racial and social conflicts unfold. Faulkner is known for his innovative and experimental literary style, which includes the use of stream of consciousness, non-linear narratives, and multiple narrative voices, challenging readers to piece together events. Among his most acclaimed novels are "The Sound and the Fury" (1929), "Light in August" (1932), and "Absalom, Absalom!" (1936). He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949, in recognition of his "singular and unprecedented contribution to modern American fiction." Faulkner also won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for "A Fable" (1955). His exploration of human nature, the legacy of slavery, and the decay of the South has left an indelible mark on world literature. He passed away on July 6, 1962, in Byhalia, Mississippi.