A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
WILLIAM FAULKNERA bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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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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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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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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