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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…

William Faulkner

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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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History is not was, it is.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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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
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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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
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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Because Practice Claim Free Freedom
A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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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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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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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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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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Any Experience Imagination Lack Need Observation One Other Supply Thing Three Time Two Writer
Civilization begins with distillation
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
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