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It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.

William Faulkner

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History is not was, it is.
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History Not Was
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
The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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Know never Read Something Think Written
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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Blind Individual Look Phase See Think Truth
No one individual can tell the truth.
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Individual No One Tell Truth
Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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Long Night Nothing Omisison One Regret Sleppeless Tomorrow Wrest
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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Aim Arrest Artificial Artist Every Fix Hold Hundred Later Mena Motion Year
A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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Call Congenitally Fiction Tell Truth Unable Write Writer
You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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Despite Fault Love Virtue You
Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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Back Climb Get Hollywood Ladder Man Place Stab Where
People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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Just Matter People Salvation Sin Too Whom Word
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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Agony Alone Conflict Good Heart Human Itself Make Problem Worth Write
They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
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Chronic Deceive Himself Liar Lie Only Practical Quickest Say Selfconvicted Veracity
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
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

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