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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…

William Faulkner

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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.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Beautiful Branch Country Create Describe Different Every Gesture Man People Person Remember Shadow Take Tolstoy Tree
But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Beck Call Cent Dammed Every Invest Itinerant Postage Propose Resignation Scoundrel Sir Stamp Two
I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Beyond Broken Butterfly Could Curve Dusk Last Light Like Mirror Piece River Saw Smell Supinem Tranquil Tideflat Trembling Upon
You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Could Do Except Just Know Knowmobidy Me Much Not So You
If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Children Color Country Culture Desperate Matter Murder Probably Reach Reason Survive
How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Apply Book False Life Most Profound Turn
War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Buy Drink Man never Poor Thing Two War
Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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Bone Flesh Illusion Like Memory Part
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.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Classic Earth Individual Men Next Room Thousand Today Tonight Week Women
An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Artist Choose Creature Demon Divine Him Usually Why Wonder
No one individual can tell the truth.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Individual No One Tell Truth
Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Afraid Be Help Scared
She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Accept Capacity Give Love Shem Bore
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Always Can Cream Do Higher Know Shoot You
Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Book Burn Like Liquior Out Pour
I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
WILLIAM FAULKNER

All Desire Give Hope Mausoleum

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