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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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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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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut.
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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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
Civilization begins with distillation
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Begin Civilization Distillation One Liner
Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
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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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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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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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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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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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Badly Enough Money Want Work
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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Because Practice Claim Free Freedom
I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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Be Beter To Try Yourself
He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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Been Dictionary Know might never Reader Send Use Word
The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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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.
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Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what’s beautiful, and it’s best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
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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.
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Accept Brave Deserve Earn Enough Fail Find Match Only She Somebody Try Twice
A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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Afraid Be Help Scared
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

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