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

William Faulkner

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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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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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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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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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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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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…
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Because Choose Color Country Elect First Front Homogeneous One Present Survive Unbroken World
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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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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Gather Rose Withered
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.
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Already Being Earth Homemade Human Last Launch Next Quarrel Sound Try Two Worthless
You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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Despite Fault Love Virtue You
Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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Yes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
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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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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
If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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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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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
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Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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Anywhere Book Else Live Love Perhaps Put Right
And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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Enough Even Just Long Sure Wait Will
The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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Art Only Responsible Writer

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