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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.

William Faulkner

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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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Better Bother Contemporaries Predecessor Try Yourself
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
I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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All Desire Give Hope Mausoleum
I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
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Believe Capable Compassion Endurance Endure Man Merely Prevail Sacrifice Spirit
Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut.
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Bricklaying Interest Let Mechanical Shortcut Surgery Take Technique Write Writer
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
Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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Ever Kno Mean Men More Possibly Women Wor
Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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Anywhere Book Else Live Love Perhaps Put Right
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
For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Afternoon Boy Clock Every Fourteen Instant July Once Southern Still Two Want Year Yet
The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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Dead Even never Not Past
Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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Bone Flesh Illusion Like Memory Part
The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
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Artist Courage Himself Honesty Kid Must Objectivity Plus Quality
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
Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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Dead Life Long Prepare Process Time
Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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Angel Black Clean Line Long Shine Simple Straight Truth Unchallengable Underibale View White

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