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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.

William Faulkner

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No one individual can tell the truth.
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Individual No One Tell Truth
The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got it or not.
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Curiosity Important Insight Man Most Muse Talent Think Whether Wonder
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
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
How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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Apply Book False Life Most Profound Turn
Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
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Avatar Condition Existence Fluid Individual Momentary No Only People Such Thing Time
Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut.
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Bricklaying Interest Let Mechanical Shortcut Surgery Take Technique Write Writer
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 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
No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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Ancestor Blindly Cling Grief Man More No One Value Vice
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
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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Childhood Consequence Date Drama Echo Generation Haunt Image New Perceive Pursue Ripple Road Taken Turn Wrong
It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
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Day Drink Eat Eight Hour Make Man One Shame Thing Work
Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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Cross Duty Human Inside Race Reminder Scent Symbol Whatever
A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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Fortune His Man Sum
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.
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Book Friend Knew Loved Man Old One Read Return Young

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