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Civilization begins with distillation

William Faulkner

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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
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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All Being Country Left Like Love Meddle People Person Snob Time
Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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Hate Least Me Now She
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 Artificial Artist Every Fix Hold Hundred Later Life Look Motion Stranger Year
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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Always Better Contemporaries Do Dream Higher Know Predecessor Shoot Try Yourself
Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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Better Bother Contemporaries Predecessor Try Yourself
I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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Advice Even Fool Good Inability Know Make Now Own Take What
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
At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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Important Most One Talent Thought Time
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
History is not was, it is.
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History Not Was
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Always Can Do Dream Higher Know Shoot You
A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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Accept Action Bear Burden Consequences Gentlemen Responsibility
Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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Ever Kno Mean Men More Possibly Women Wor
I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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Know never Read Something Think Written
Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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Do Each Fact Much Other Really Truth With

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