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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.

William Faulkner

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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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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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But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
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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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Day Fire Man Misfortune One Sum Them Think
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
Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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Believe Endure Man Merely Prevail
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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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
One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
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After Day Do Eat Eight Hour Love Man One Sad Thing Work
The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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Beautiful Description Most Understand Woman
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 Arrest Artificial Artist Every Fix Hold Hundred Later Mena Motion Year
The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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Best Fiction Journalism More True
Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
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Always Artist Behind Final Important Importantly Irrevocable Leave Man Mortal Oblivion Pass Possible Since Someday Something Through Wall
War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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Buy Drink Man never Poor Thing Two War
I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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