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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

If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Because Choose Color Country Elect First Front Homogeneous One Present Survive Unbroken World
An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
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Artist Beg Choose Creature Demon Done Driven Everybody Steal Wonder Work
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.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Aim Arrest Artificial Artist Every Fix Hold Hundred Later Mena Motion Year
A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Day Fire Man Misfortune One Sum Them Think
All l mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don’t know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

All Another Except Have Know Mix Same String Try Way
The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Beautiful Description Most Understand Woman
There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Bad Better Booze Fifty Fool Happen Man Other Some Such Thing Until Whiskey
It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Began Now Over See Tomorrow Until Yesterday
My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Been Experience Food Little Need Own Paper Tobacco Tool Trade Whisky
An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Artist Choose Creature Demon Divine Him Usually Why Wonder
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.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Always Better Contemporaries Do Dream Higher Know Predecessor Shoot Try Yourself
If there is a God what the hell is He for?
WILLIAM FAULKNER

For God Hell
The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Before Born Consequence Dead Desire Environment Eternity Heredity History Labor never Past Spun Web
Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Cross Duty Human Inside Race Reminder Scent Symbol Whatever
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.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Already Being Earth Homemade Human Last Launch Next Quarrel Sound Try Two Worthless
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Because Practice Claim Free Freedom

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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