Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
WILLIAM FAULKNER
Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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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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You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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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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So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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