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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

William Faulkner

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Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations.
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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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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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Anyone Next Seduce Talk Time Try With Word
The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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Amn Curious Does Important Insight Most Muil Muse Thing Wonder
The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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Book Friend Knew Loved Man Old One Read Return Young
Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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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
I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought.
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Battle Breath Conquer Ever Fought Give Moment Remember Spend Time Try Won
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
The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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Best Fiction Journalism More True
Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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After Death Destroy Good Nothing Only Thing Writer
You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
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Born Get Keep Lot People Same Time Try
She was the captain of her soul
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Captain Her She Soul
I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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