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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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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
Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
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Else Infact Look Nobody See Slightly Someone Taken Together Truth
If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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Come Has Out Story
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
Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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Better Bother Just Other Try 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
History is not was, it is.
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History Not Was
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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Always Better Contemporaries Do Dream Higher Know Predecessor Shoot Try Yourself
To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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Country First People Person Place Understand World
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
I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
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Beyond Broken Butterfly Could Curve Dusk Last Light Like Mirror Piece River Saw Smell Supinem Tranquil Tideflat Trembling Upon
Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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Believe Endure Man Merely Prevail
No one individual can tell the truth.
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Individual No One Tell Truth
Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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Build Draft First House Strong Wind Write
The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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Book Friend Knew Loved Man Old One Read Return Young
Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut.
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Bricklaying Interest Let Mechanical Shortcut Surgery Take Technique Write Writer

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