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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.

William Faulkner

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Back Climb Get Hollywood Ladder Man Place Stab Where
Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
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Accept Brave Deserve Earn Enough Fail Find Match Only She Somebody Try Twice
The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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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
Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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Family Memory Most Our Sweet Treasure
At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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Important Most One Talent Thought Time
Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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Bad Classic Do Everything Good How Read Trash
He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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Been Dictionary Know might never Reader Send Use Word
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
A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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Fortune His Man Sum
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
Try to be better than yourself.
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Be Beter To Try Yourself
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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Aim Arrest Artificial Artist Every Fix Hold Hundred Later Mena Motion Year
Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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Heartbreaking Stupidity Talk Utter Word
If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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Come Has Out Story
The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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Always Fact Interest Poet Really Truth Wrong
The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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Dream End Enough IT Lose Seek Wisdom
War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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Buy Drink Man never Poor Thing Two War
Who gathers the withered rose?
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Gather Rose Withered
Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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Better Bother Just Other Try Yourself
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
Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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Go On Wonder
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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All Base Dream Fail Failure Impossible Match Perfection Rate Us
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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Bus Desk Station Stop Train Work
Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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Hate Least Me Now She
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Blind Individual Look Phase See Think Truth
People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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Frustration Little Need People Sharpen Spirit Toughen Trouble

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