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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.

William Faulkner

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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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Die End Go How Make One People Place Take Two Word
If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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All Change Do Earth If Over People World
She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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Accept Capacity Give Love Shem Bore
So, never be afraid. 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 Injustice Lie never Raise Truth Voice
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
History is not was, it is.
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History Not Was
The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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Conflict Heart Human Itself Only Thing Worth Writing
Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
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Artist Endurance Fortitude Gutter Happy Hole Learn Live Need Rat Vegetable
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
I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
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Come Himself Infinite Man Must Patience Posses Right Self Teach Think Training Try Young
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.
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Beck Call Cent Dammed Every Invest Itinerant Postage Propose Resignation Scoundrel Sir Stamp Two
Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
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Courage Cowardice Fellow Good Gun Let Run Time Toward Whether Word
Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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Bone Flesh Illusion Like Memory Part
I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
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Act Believe Courage Decency Demand Great Help Know Meet Problem Respect Self
Yes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
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Damage Dead Escape Folk Hold Lay Live Man One Quiet Talk Yes
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

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