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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.

William Faulkner

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Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Else Infact Look Nobody See Slightly Someone Taken Together Truth
The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Anyone Next Seduce Talk Time Try With Word
We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Afraid Be Ourselves Start Teach
Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

After Death Destroy Good Nothing Only Thing Writer
It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Aid Anything Help Need Nothing Pride Religion When Realize
I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Advice Even Fool Good Inability Know Make Now Own Take What
The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Conflict Heart Human Itself Only Thing Worth Writing
The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Always Fact Interest Poet Really Truth Wrong
A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Accept Action Bear Burden Consequences Gentlemen Responsibility
Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Absorb Apprentice Carpenter Good Just Like Master Out Raed Study Window Write
There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Bad Better Booze Fifty Fool Happen Man Other Some Such Thing Until Whiskey
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

Beyond Broken Butterfly Could Curve Dusk Last Light Like Mirror Piece River Saw Smell Supinem Tranquil Tideflat Trembling Upon
And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Even Honest Liar Lie Man Same Scare Tell Torture Truth
Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Courage Cowardice Fellow Good Gun Let Run Time Toward Whether Word
If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Classic Earth Individual Men Next Room Thousand Today Tonight Week Women
Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Accept Brave Deserve Earn Enough Fail Find Match Only She Somebody Try Twice

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