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

William Faulkner

Requiem for a Nun

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Faulkner, William. Requiem for a Nun. Random House, 1951.

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Faulkner, William. Requiem for a Nun. Vintage, 2012.

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You can't understand it. You would have to be born there.

William Faulkner

Absalom, Absalom!

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Buy Absalom, Absalom! Buy Absalom, Absalom!

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Faulkner, William. Absalom, Absalom! Chelsea House Publishers, 1987, p. 85.

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Poor man. Poor mankind.

William Faulkner

Light in August

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Faulkner, William. Light in August. Smith & Haas, 1932, ch. 4.

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Faulkner, William. Light in August, edited by Melanie Taylor. W. W. Norton & Company, 2022, ch. 4.

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Between grief and nothing I will take grief.

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Faulkner, William. The Wild Palms. Random House, 1939.

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They will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white men or that white men and bondage have taught them: improvidence and intemperance and evasion-not laziness: evasion: of what white men had set them to, not for their aggrandizement or even comfort but his own.

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Faulkner on black Americans.

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Faulkner, William. "The Bear." Go Down, Moses. Random House, 1942, pt. 4.

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I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.

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Faulkner, William. Speech at the Nobel Banquet. Nobel Banquet. 10 Dec. 1950, City Hall, Stockholm, Sweden.

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Too much happens... Man performs, engenders, so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything... That's what is so terrible.

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Light in August

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Faulkner, William. Light in August. Smith & Haas, 1932, ch. 13.

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Faulkner, William. Light in August, edited by Melanie Taylor. W. W. Norton & Company, 2022, ch. 13.

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I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long enough to exhaust it.

William Faulkner

Quoted in Paris Review

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Faulkner, William. "William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12." Interviewed by Jean Stein. Paris Review, Spring 1956.

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A man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool if he doesn't.

William Faulkner

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Faulkner, William. Quoted in William Faulkner of Oxford, written and edited by James M. Webb and A. Wigfall Green. Louisiana State University Press, 1965.

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