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

William Faulkner

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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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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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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Battle Ever Fool Illusion No Philosopher Victory Won
I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.
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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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Artist Dream Match never Perfection Start With Work
I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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Clock Day Every Feel Fortunately Inspiration Only Strick Ten Write
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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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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Ancestor Blindly Cling Grief Man More No One Value Vice
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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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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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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