A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
WILLIAM FAULKNERBut 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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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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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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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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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.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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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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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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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.
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