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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.

William Faulkner

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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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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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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
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The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
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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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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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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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If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.
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