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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.

William Faulkner

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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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Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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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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Every Evoke Hand Ideal Man Mind Phrase Stage Which Women Word Wrist
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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Curiosity Important Insight Man Most Muse Talent Think Whether Wonder
The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
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Already Being Earth Homemade Human Last Launch Next Quarrel Sound Try Two Worthless
The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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Art Only Responsible Writer
Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations.
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Childhood Consequence Date Drama Echo Generation Haunt Image New Perceive Pursue Ripple Road Taken Turn Wrong
And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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Enough Even Just Long Sure Wait Will
You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
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Could Do Except Just Know Knowmobidy Me Much Not So You
The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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Anyone Next Seduce Talk Time Try With Word
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Always Can Cream Do Higher Know Shoot You
Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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Bone Flesh Illusion Like Memory Part
Who gathers the withered rose?
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Gather Rose Withered
Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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Cam Do Not What You
And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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Even Honest Liar Lie Man Same Scare Tell Torture Truth
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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Absorb Apprentice Carpenter Good Just Like Master Out Raed Study Window Write
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
No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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Ancestor Blindly Cling Grief Man More No One Value Vice
I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
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Believe Capable Compassion Endurance Endure Man Merely Prevail Sacrifice Spirit
To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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Against Alaska Anywhere Color Equality Living Race Snow Today World
Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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Family Memory Most Our Sweet Treasure
The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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Dead Even never Not Past
No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Battle Ever Fool Illusion No Philosopher Victory Won
Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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Discharge Electricity Exist Gratitude Order Produce Quality Similar Use
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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Day Drink Eat Eight Hour Make Man One Shame Thing Work
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

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