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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.

William Faulkner

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Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
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Courage Cowardice Fellow Good Gun Let Run Time Toward Whether Word
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
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
There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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Less Many Some Thing Thousand Three Too Word
Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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Bem Writer Writing
Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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Brother Dood Get Have One Rich Success Time
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Always Can Do Dream Higher Know Shoot You
The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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Beautiful Description Most Understand Woman
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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Afraid Already Before Cling Ever Fellow Got might More Risk Trouble Use
To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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Country First People Person Place Understand World
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
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Always Can Cream Do Higher Know Shoot You
The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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Artist Dream Match never Perfection Start With Work
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
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
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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Because Practice Claim Free Freedom

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