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The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.

William Faulkner

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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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Day Fire Man Misfortune One Sum Them Think
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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Else Infact Look Nobody See Slightly Someone Taken Together Truth
I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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All Desire Give Hope Mausoleum
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
The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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Agony Alone Conflict Good Heart Human Itself Make Problem Worth Write
Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
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Bear Dishonor Injustice Must never Outrage Refuse Shame Some Stop Thing Think Unable Walkways
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
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.
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Aid Anything Help Need Nothing Pride Religion When Realize
The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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Artist Dream Match never Perfection Start With Work
Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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Better Bother Just Other Try Yourself
The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
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Artist Courage Himself Honesty Kid Must Objectivity Plus Quality
The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
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Admire Advice Artist Beat Believe Enough Good Matter Much Nobody Supreme
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
The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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Always Fact Interest Poet Really Truth Wrong
If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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For God Hell
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Courage Horizon Lose New Shore Sight Swim Until

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