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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

William Faulkner

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You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
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Born Get Keep Lot People Same Time Try
The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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Book Friend Knew Loved Man Old One Read Return Young
The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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Frustration Little Need People Sharpen Spirit Toughen Trouble
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
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
A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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Call Congenitally Fiction Tell Truth Unable Write Writer
He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
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Anything False Himself Intolerance Love might Much Page Paragraph Ruthless Throw Train
Civilization begins with distillation
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Begin Civilization Distillation One Liner
The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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Every Evoke Hand Ideal Man Mind Phrase Stage Which Women Word Wrist
Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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Hate Least Me Now She
Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
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Being Click Clock Come Dead Life Little Long Stay Stop Time Wheel
It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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Began Now Over See Tomorrow Until Yesterday
For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
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Afternoon Boy Clock Every Fourteen Instant July Once Southern Still Two Want Year Yet
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
You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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Anyhow Beat Dislike Even Trouble Try Uproar Wise Women

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