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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.

William Faulkner

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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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Come Himself Infinite Man Must Patience Posses Right Self Teach Think Training Try Young
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.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Beyond Broken Butterfly Could Curve Dusk Last Light Like Mirror Piece River Saw Smell Supinem Tranquil Tideflat Trembling Upon
The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Artist Courage Himself Honesty Kid Must Objectivity Plus Quality
People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Frustration Little Need People Sharpen Spirit Toughen Trouble
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
Civilization begins with distillation
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Begin Civilization Distillation One Liner
No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Battle Ever Fool Illusion No Philosopher Victory Won
To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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Against Alaska Anywhere Color Equality Living Race Snow Today World
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.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Always Better Contemporaries Do Dream Higher Know Predecessor Shoot Try Yourself
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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After Day Do Eat Eight Hour Love Man One Sad Thing Work
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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Damage Dead Escape Folk Hold Lay Live Man One Quiet Talk Yes
She was the captain of her soul
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Captain Her She Soul
All l mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don’t know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way.
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All Another Except Have Know Mix Same String Try Way
If a story is in you, it has to come out.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Come Has Out Story
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
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

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