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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

William Faulkner

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Bad Better Booze Fifty Fool Happen Man Other Some Such Thing Until Whiskey
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All Desire Give Hope Mausoleum
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Hate Least Me Now She
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Any Experience Imagination Lack Need Observation One Other Supply Thing Three Time Two Writer
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Could Do Except Just Know Knowmobidy Me Much Not So You
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