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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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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
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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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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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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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Against Alaska Anywhere Color Equality Living Race Snow Today World
Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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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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Beyond Broken Butterfly Could Curve Dusk Last Light Like Mirror Piece River Saw Smell Supinem Tranquil Tideflat Trembling Upon
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Been Experience Food Little Need Own Paper Tobacco Tool Trade Whisky
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All Being Country Left Like Love Meddle People Person Snob Time
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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Damage Dead Escape Folk Hold Lay Live Man One Quiet Talk Yes
I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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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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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
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After Day Do Eat Eight Hour Love Man One Sad Thing Work

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