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William Faulkner

American novelist and short-story Writer['As I Lay Dying', 'Absalom, Absalom!' Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949]

Nationality: American

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Type: Writer

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Birth: 1897-1962

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We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.

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They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.

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The worst old age is that of the mind.

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To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

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Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.

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The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.

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There is an unseemly exposure of the mind, as well as of the body.

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Comedy naturally wears itself out - destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of mankind to ridicule, in the end leaves itself nothing worth laughing at.

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The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues.

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As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

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We are all of us, more or less, the slaves of opinion.

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Gallantry to women - the sure road to their favor - is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

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There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.

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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

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Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering the weaknesses of others.

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Life is the art of being well deceived.

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A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.

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Anyone who has passed through the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.

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Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as ''spectacles'' to look at nature with, than as blinds to keep out its strong light and shifting scenery from weak eyes and ind

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Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.

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One shining quality lends a luster to another, or hides some glaring defect.

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The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.

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General principles are not the less true or important because from their nature they elude immediate observation; they are like the air, which is not the less necessary because we neither see nor feel it.

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If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

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Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

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The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.

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There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

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There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please -that is, as they please or displease us.

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The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously; and those who have produced immortal works, have done so without knowing how or why. The greatest power operates unseen.

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Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.

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Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

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Grace in women has more effect than beauty.

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The public have neither shame or gratitude.

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No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

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We can scarcely hate anyone that we know.

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Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.

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The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

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A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.

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The only vice which cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

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There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.

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The are of will-making chiefly consists in baffling the importunity of expectation.

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Man is a make-believe animal - he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

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There is nothing more likely to drive a man mad, than the being unable to get rid of the idea of the distinction between right and wrong, and an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable.

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Those who can command themselves command others.

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The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their cause, which is only the cause of humanity, to their own spleen, vanity, and self-opinion.

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If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

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Belief is with them mechanical, voluntary: they believe what they are paid for - they swear to that which turns to account. Do you suppose, that after years spent in this manner, they have any feeling left answering to the difference between truth and fal

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To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

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The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.

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Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a real confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.

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No truly great person ever thought themselves so.

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Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

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The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.

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If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.

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No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.

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The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.

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Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.

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The essence of poetry is will and passion.

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A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

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If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

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There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.

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Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

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The most learned are often the most narrow minded.

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No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.

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Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them.

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There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiless, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself.

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Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.

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To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.

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We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

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There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.

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Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols - it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them.

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Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.

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I would like to spend my whole life traveling, if I could borrow another life to spend at home.

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The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience; to what they have an opportunity to know, and motives to study or practice. The rest is affectation and imposture.

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Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

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The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.

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