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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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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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Despite Fault Love Virtue You
The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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Error Follow Fool Learn Mistake Own People Teach Theory Writer Young Yourself
I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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Justmw Ay Money Say Spend Value
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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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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Brother Dood Get Have One Rich Success Time
I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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Blind Individual Look Phase See Think Truth
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
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
Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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Discharge Electricity Exist Gratitude Order Produce Quality Similar Use
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
The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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Dream End Enough IT Lose Seek Wisdom
Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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Hate Least Me Now She
If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
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Classic Earth Individual Men Next Room Thousand Today Tonight Week Women
The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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Artist Dream Match never Perfection Start With Work
Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Battle Despair Even Ever Field Folly Fought Lluision Man No Only Own Reveal Victory Won
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

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