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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.

William Faulkner

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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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Because Practice Claim Free Freedom
Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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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
As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
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Accept Brave Deserve Earn Enough Fail Find Match Only She Somebody Try Twice
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
The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Despair Field Folly Fool Illusion Man Own Philosopher Reveal Victory
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
They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
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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
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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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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For God Hell
You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
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Born Get Keep Lot People Same Time Try
Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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After Death Destroy Good Nothing Only Thing Writer
No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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Ancestor Blindly Cling Grief Man More No One Value Vice
There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
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Bad Better Booze Fifty Fool Happen Man Other Some Such Thing Until Whiskey

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