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William Faulkner Quotes: So vast, so limitless in capacity is man's imagination to disperse and burn away the rubble-dross of fact and probability, leaving only truth and dream.
         

So vast, so limitless in capacity is man's imagination to disperse and burn away the rubble-dross of fact and probability, leaving only truth and dream.


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



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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.



Don't do what you can do - try what you can't do.

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



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