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It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.

William Faulkner

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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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There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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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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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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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
A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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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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History is not was, it is.
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History Not Was
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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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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