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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.

William Faulkner

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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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Always Demand Distract Event Feel Image Quotation Resonance Some
No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Battle Ever Fool Illusion No Philosopher Victory Won
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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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.
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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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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
I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
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Believe Capable Compassion Endurance Endure Man Merely Prevail Sacrifice Spirit
People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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History is not was, it is.
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History Not Was
I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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All Desire Give Hope Mausoleum
She was the captain of her soul
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Captain Her She Soul
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
Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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Honest Then Unless Ashamed Yourself
Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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Better Bother Contemporaries Predecessor Try Yourself
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Always Can Do Dream Higher Know Shoot You

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