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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…

William Faulkner

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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
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It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
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Day Drink Eat Eight Hour Make Man One Shame Thing Work
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
No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
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Back Bear Cash Either Got Kidos Matter Money Paper Picture Refuse Young
The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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Agony Alone Conflict Good Heart Human Itself Make Problem Worth Write
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
Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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Ever Kno Mean Men More Possibly Women Wor
Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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Damnable Fear Human Most Personally Thing Whole World
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
It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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Flouted Hard Man Need Road Seem
Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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Between Choice Choose Experience Given Nothing Pain Path
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
Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.
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Absorb Apprentice Carpenter Good Just Like Master Out Raed Study Window Write
I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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Know never Read Something Think Written
Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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