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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.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.
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.
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