More from William Faulkner

  1. To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
  2. Kill your darlings.
  3. To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
  4. This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them.
  5. The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.
  6. The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
  7. The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
  8. Read, read, read. Read everything- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice …

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