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William Faulkner (1897-1962) was an American writer celebrated for his intricate narratives and innovative literary techniques. He is best known for his novels "The Sound and the Fury" (1929), which employs stream-of-consciousness narration, and "As I Lay Dying" (1930), noted for its multiple perspectives. Faulkner's work often explores themes of the Southern experience and the human condition. more William Faulkner (1897-1962) was an American writer celebrated for his intricate narratives and innovative literary techniques. He is best known for his novels "The Sound and the Fury" (1929), which employs stream-of-consciousness narration, and "As I Lay Dying" (1930), noted for its multiple perspectives. Faulkner's work often explores themes of the Southern experience and the human condition. Key accomplishments include winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949, recognizing his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel. Additionally, his novel "A Fable" won both the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award in 1955. In 1962, he received a second Pulitzer for "The Reivers." Faulkner's writing remains a cornerstone of American literature. less

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"Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world would do this, it would change the earth."
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"If a story is in you, it has to come out."
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"We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it."
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"You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith."
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"The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important."
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"The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."
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"It is my aim, and every poet's, to have each work as a whole and each separate paragraph too, to be the whole story, with beginning, middle, climax, and end."
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"I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire I give it to you not that you may remember time but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it."
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"I can’t stand to see a thing half done. If a thing’s wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry ineffectually."
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"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."
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"Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do."
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"A man is the sum of his misfortunes."
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"Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain."
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"To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi."
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"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."
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