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“To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi”

William Faulkner quotes (American short-story Writer and Novelist, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949, 1897-1962)

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“The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past.”

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“The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.”

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“No man can write who is not first a humanitarian”

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“I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and has got to write, he don't know why, he will learn from almost any source that he finds. He will learn from older people who are not writers, he will learn from writers, but he learns it -- you can't teach it.”

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“People need trouble -- a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.”

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“I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.”

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“I understand with love comes pain, but why did I have to love so much?”

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“He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.”

Elbert Hubbard quotes (American editor, publisher and writer, 1856-1915)

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“The salvation of the world is in man's suffering”

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“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”

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