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No one individual can tell the truth.

William Faulkner

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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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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
But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
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Beck Call Cent Dammed Every Invest Itinerant Postage Propose Resignation Scoundrel Sir Stamp Two
Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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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.
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Anything False Himself Intolerance Love might Much Page Paragraph Ruthless Throw Train
A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
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A Man All Men Chance Choose Evil Fame Good Hundred Meddel Meddle Meddling One Opportunities Pass Riche Sometimes Want Welldoing
We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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Ancestor Blindly Cling Grief Man More No One Value Vice
I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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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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Act Believe Courage Decency Demand Great Help Know Meet Problem Respect Self
The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
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A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.
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Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
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Being Click Clock Come Dead Life Little Long Stay Stop Time Wheel
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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Been Experience Food Little Need Own Paper Tobacco Tool Trade Whisky
The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
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Come Himself Infinite Man Must Patience Posses Right Self Teach Think Training Try Young
The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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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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All Alone Before Best Black Learn Leave Lot People Take Think Time Waste Way White

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