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If people liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.
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I believe that man will not merely endure he will prevail.
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Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
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Henry James was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met.
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
We give advice by the bucket but take it by the grain.
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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world . . . would do this, it would change the earth.
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.

He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one … 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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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.