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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.

William Faulkner

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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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Always Better Contemporaries Do Dream Higher Know Predecessor Shoot Try Yourself
Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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Go On Wonder
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.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Bad Better Booze Fifty Fool Happen Man Other Some Such Thing Until Whiskey
Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Book Burn Like Liquior Out Pour
Only when the clock stops does time come to life
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Clock Come Life Only Stop Time When
He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Anything False Himself Intolerance Love might Much Page Paragraph Ruthless Throw Train
If there is a God what the hell is He for?
WILLIAM FAULKNER

For God Hell
Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Brother Dood Get Have One Rich Success Time
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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Day Fire Man Misfortune One Sum Them Think
If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

All Change Do Earth If Over People World
My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Been Experience Food Little Need Own Paper Tobacco Tool Trade Whisky
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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Could Do Except Just Know Knowmobidy Me Much Not So You
The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
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Before Born Consequence Dead Desire Environment Eternity Heredity History Labor never Past Spun Web
Try to be better than yourself.
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Be Beter To Try Yourself
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.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Beyond Broken Butterfly Could Curve Dusk Last Light Like Mirror Piece River Saw Smell Supinem Tranquil Tideflat Trembling Upon
The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Anyone Next Seduce Talk Time Try With Word

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