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

William Faulkner

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He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
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Anything False Himself Intolerance Love might Much Page Paragraph Ruthless Throw Train
Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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Better Bother Contemporaries Predecessor Try Yourself
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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Agree Behaviour Being Christianity Code Follow Human Individual Mena Nature No One Word
The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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Dead Even never Not Past
If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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All Change Do Earth If Over People World
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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Aim Artificial Artist Every Fix Hold Hundred Later Life Look Motion Stranger Year
The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
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Already Being Earth Homemade Human Last Launch Next Quarrel Sound Try Two Worthless
They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Chronic Deceive Himself Liar Lie Only Practical Quickest Say Selfconvicted Veracity
An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
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Artist Beg Choose Creature Demon Done Driven Everybody Steal Wonder Work
Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Battle Despair Even Ever Field Folly Fought Lluision Man No Only Own Reveal Victory Won
And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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Even Honest Liar Lie Man Same Scare Tell Torture Truth
People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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Just Matter People Salvation Sin Too Whom Word
The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Despair Field Folly Fool Illusion Man Own Philosopher Reveal Victory
Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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Before Cringe Feminine Like Override Success Woman
My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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Been Experience Food Little Need Own Paper Tobacco Tool Trade Whisky
If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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Come Has Out Story

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