You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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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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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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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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I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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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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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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