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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

William Faulkner

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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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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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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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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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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got it or not.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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Gather Rose Withered
The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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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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