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JEFFERSON, YOKNAPATAWPHA CO., Mississippi. Area, 2400 Square Miles. Population, Whites, 6298; Negroes, 9313. WILLIAM FAULKNER, Sole Owner & Proprietor.

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I dont hate it. . . . I dont hate it. . . . I dont hate it he thought, panting in the cold air, the iron New England dark; I dont. I dont! I dont hate it! I dont hate it!

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Why do you hate the South?

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They [the Negroes] will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white men or that white men and bondage have taught them: improvidence and intemperance and evasion—not laziness: evasion: of what white men had set them to, not for their aggrandizement or even comfort but his own.

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Too much happens. . . . Man performs, engenders, so much more than he can or should have to bear. That’s how he finds that he can bear anything. . . . That’s what’s so terrible.

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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

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No man can write who is not first a humanitarian.
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He [the writer] must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop for anything but the old verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed—love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice.
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What’s wrong with this world is, it’s not finished yet. It is not completed to that point where man can put his final signature to the job and say, "It is finished. We made it, and it works.”
One of the saddest things is that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours.
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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.