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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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All Alone Before Best Black Learn Leave Lot People Take Think Time Waste Way White
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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Honest Then Unless Ashamed Yourself
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Everything Raed
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Error Learn Mistake Own People Teach Yourself
Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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Hate Least Me Now She
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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Gather Rose Withered
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Agony Alone Conflict Good Heart Human Itself Make Problem Worth Write

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