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Only when the clock stops does time come to life

William Faulkner

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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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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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Advice Even Fool Good Inability Know Make Now Own Take What
Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations.
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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
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Act Believe Courage Decency Demand Great Help Know Meet Problem Respect Self
One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
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But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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Be Beter To Try Yourself
Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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Honest Then Unless Ashamed Yourself
If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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Frustration Little Need People Sharpen Spirit Toughen Trouble
The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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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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