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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.

William Faulkner

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Courage Cowardice Fellow Good Gun Let Run Time Toward Whether Word
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Agony Alone Conflict Good Heart Human Itself Make Problem Worth Write
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Apply Book False Life Most Profound Turn
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Chronic Deceive Himself Liar Lie Only Practical Quickest Say Selfconvicted Veracity
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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Every Evoke Hand Ideal Man Mind Phrase Stage Which Women Word Wrist
Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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Else Infact Look Nobody See Slightly Someone Taken Together Truth
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Flouted Hard Man Need Road Seem
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No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
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Back Bear Cash Either Got Kidos Matter Money Paper Picture Refuse Young
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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