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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.

William Faulkner

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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.
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Battle Breath Conquer Ever Fought Give Moment Remember Spend Time Try Won
At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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Important Most One Talent Thought Time
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
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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Chronic Deceive Himself Liar Lie Only Practical Quickest Say Selfconvicted Veracity
A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
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A Man All Men Chance Choose Evil Fame Good Hundred Meddel Meddle Meddling One Opportunities Pass Riche Sometimes Want Welldoing
A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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Fortune His Man Sum
The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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Always Demand Distract Event Feel Image Quotation Resonance Some
Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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Avoid Been Dangerm Fight Every Except Men Pracfist Reason Sun Under
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
I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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All Desire Give Hope Mausoleum
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
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
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
The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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Agony Alone Conflict Good Heart Human Itself Make Problem Worth Write
Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
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Else Infact Look Nobody See Slightly Someone Taken Together Truth
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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