More from William Faulkner

  1. Kill your darlings.
  2. Civilization began with distillation.
  3. To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
  4. 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.
  5. This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them.
  6. The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.
  7. The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
  8. The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.

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