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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.

William Faulkner

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I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
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All Being Country Left Like Love Meddle People Person Snob Time
A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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Accept Action Bear Burden Consequences Gentlemen Responsibility
Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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Family Memory Most Our Sweet Treasure
Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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Cam Do Not What You
Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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Book Burn Like Liquior Out Pour
I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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All Desire Give Hope Mausoleum
Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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Afraid Be Help Scared
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
Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
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Bear Dishonor Injustice Must never Outrage Refuse Shame Some Stop Thing Think Unable Walkways
Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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Before Believe Believer Even Know Longer Memory Recollect Remember Wonder
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
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
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
I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
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All Alone Before Best Black Learn Leave Lot People Take Think Time Waste Way White
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
I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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Justmw Ay Money Say Spend Value
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 give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought.
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Battle Breath Conquer Ever Fought Give Moment Remember Spend Time Try Won
A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.
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Afraid Already Before Cling Ever Fellow Got might More Risk Trouble Use
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
The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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Best Fiction Journalism More True
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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Aim Artificial Artist Every Fix Hold Hundred Later Life Look Motion Stranger Year
She was the captain of her soul
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Captain Her She Soul
Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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Honest Then Unless Ashamed Yourself
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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Bus Desk Station Stop Train Work
An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.
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Artist Choose Creature Demon Divine Him Usually Why Wonder
The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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Dead Even never Not Past

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