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History is not was, it is.

William Faulkner

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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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Afraid Against Compassion Greed Honesty Lie never Raise Truth
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
You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
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Could Do Except Just Know Knowmobidy Me Much Not So You
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
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
Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
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Always Artist Behind Final Important Importantly Irrevocable Leave Man Mortal Oblivion Pass Possible Since Someday Something Through Wall
Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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Error Learn Mistake Own People Teach Yourself
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
If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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Can Happy Must Suffer Will
Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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Cam Do Not What You
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
The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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Dead Even never Not Past
If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
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Because Choose Color Country Elect First Front Homogeneous One Present Survive Unbroken World
At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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Important Most One Talent Thought Time
And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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Enough Even Just Long Sure Wait Will
And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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Even Honest Liar Lie Man Same Scare Tell Torture Truth

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