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I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.

William Faulkner

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Come Has Out Story
I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
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Back Bear Cash Either Got Kidos Matter Money Paper Picture Refuse Young
A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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Accept Action Bear Burden Consequences Gentlemen Responsibility
The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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Always Demand Distract Event Feel Image Quotation Resonance Some
And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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Enough Even Just Long Sure Wait Will
You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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Despite Fault Love Virtue You
Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut.
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Anyone Next Seduce Talk Time Try With Word
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After Day Do Eat Eight Hour Love Man One Sad Thing Work
A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
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Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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