Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.

WILLIAM FAULKNER

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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.

William Faulkner

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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 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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Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.

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Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
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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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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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They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.

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They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.

WILLIAM FAULKNER

No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.

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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.

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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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Frustration Sharpen Toughen
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

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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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.

WILLIAM FAULKNER

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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Breath Ever Fought Give Moment Won
Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.

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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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Damnable Most Personally Thing Whole
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 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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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.

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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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Anywhere Else Perhaps Put
The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.

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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.

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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.

WILLIAM FAULKNER

The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.

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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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