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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.

William Faulkner

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They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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Civilization begins with distillation
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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 there is a God what the hell is He for?
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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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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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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I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
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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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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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Read, read read. Read everything.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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