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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…

William Faulkner

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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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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.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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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.
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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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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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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.
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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
Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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Do Each Fact Much Other Really Truth With
The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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