If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green.
~ William Faulkner

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The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don’t have the time to read reviews.
~ William Faulkner

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Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all written about the same things, and if they had lived one thousand or two thousand years longer, the publishers wouldn’t have needed anyone since.
~ William Faulkner

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Life is motion, and motion is concerned with what makes man move — which is ambition, power, pleasure.
~ William Faulkner

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You should approach Joyce’s Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.
~ William Faulkner

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By temperament I’m a vagabond and a tramp.
~ William Faulkner

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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
~ William Faulkner

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If I had not existed, someone else would have written me.
~ William Faulkner

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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
~ William Faulkner

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Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move.
~ William Faulkner

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