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But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.

William Faulkner

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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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Man Salvation Suffer World
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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Because Practice Claim Free Freedom
Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
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The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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Dead Life Long Prepare Process Time
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…
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Afternoon Boy Clock Every Fourteen Instant July Once Southern Still Two Want Year Yet
I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
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All Alone Before Best Black Learn Leave Lot People Take Think Time Waste Way White
It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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Die End Go How Make One People Place Take Two Word
It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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Flouted Hard Man Need Road Seem
Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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Cross Duty Human Inside Race Reminder Scent Symbol Whatever
She was the captain of her soul
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Captain Her She Soul
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
At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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Important Most One Talent Thought Time
Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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Between Choice Choose Experience Given Nothing Pain Path
An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Courage Horizon Lose New Shore Sight Swim Until
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 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
War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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Buy Drink Man never Poor Thing Two War
People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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Frustration Little Need People Sharpen Spirit Toughen Trouble
The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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Art Only Responsible Writer
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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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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Best Fiction Journalism More True
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
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
Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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Damnable Fear Human Most Personally Thing Whole World
Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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Hate Least Me Now She

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