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William Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi, on September 25, 1897.
* He grew up in Oxford, Mississippi, and attended the University of Mississippi.
* Faulkner published his first novel, Soldier's Pay, in 1926.
* He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949.
* Faulkner is known for his use of stream-of-consciousness writing and his exploration of the themes of race, class, and family.
* Some of his most famous works include The Sound and the Fury, Absalom, Absalom!, and Light in August.
* Faulkner died in Oxford, Mississippi, on July 6, 1962.
* He is considered one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

William Faulkner

You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.

William Faulkner

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

William Faulkner

The past is never dead. It's not even past.

William Faulkner

She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love. Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.

William Faulkner

Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.

William Faulkner

If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.

William Faulkner

A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune

William Faulkner

In writing, you must kill all your darlings.

William Faulkner

If a story is in you, it has to come out.

William Faulkner

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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

William Faulkner

The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.

William Faulkner

Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything good.

William Faulkner

The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.

William Faulkner

A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.

William Faulkner

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