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US  William Faulkner

William Faulkner föddes den 25 september 1897 och dog den 6 juli 1962 - Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949.
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 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. . . . If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don't deserve to survive, and probably won't.

 In my time I have seen truth that was anything under the sun but just, and I have seen justice using tools and instruments I wouldn't want to touch with a 10-foot fence rail.

 It is assumed that anyone who makes a million dollars has a unique gift, though he might have made it off some useless gadget.

 It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: He made the books and he died.

 It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand $30,000.

 It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.

 Landlord of a bordello! The company's good and the mornings are quiet, which is the best time to write.

 Loving all of it even while he had to hate some of it because he knows now that you don't love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.

 Man knows so little about his fellows. In his eyes all men or women act upon what he believes would motivate him if he were mad enough to do what that other man or woman is doing.

 Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.

 Man will not merely endure; he will prevail.

 Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly is having to accept it.

 Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.

 Mississippi begins in a lobby of a Memphis, Tennessee hotel and extends south to the Gulf of Mexico

 My mother is a fish.


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