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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself

William Faulkner

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Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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Angel Black Clean Line Long Shine Simple Straight Truth Unchallengable Underibale View White
It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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Began Now Over See Tomorrow Until Yesterday
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
Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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Clock Come Life Only Stop Time When
I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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Blind Individual Look Phase See Think Truth
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
Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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Book Burn Like Liquior Out Pour
Yes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
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Damage Dead Escape Folk Hold Lay Live Man One Quiet Talk Yes
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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After Day Do Eat Eight Hour Love Man One Sad Thing Work
Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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Dead Life Long Prepare Process Time
You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
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Could Do Except Just Know Knowmobidy Me Much Not So You
Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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Damnable Fear Human Most Personally Thing Whole World
So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
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Afraid Against Compassion Greed Honesty Injustice Lie never Raise Truth Voice
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
A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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Any Experience Imagination Lack Need Observation One Other Supply Thing Three Time Two Writer
Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what’s beautiful, and it’s best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
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Beautiful Branch Country Create Describe Different Every Gesture Man People Person Remember Shadow Take Tolstoy Tree

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