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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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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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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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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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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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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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Read, read read. Read everything.
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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Conflict Heart Human Itself Only Thing Worth Writing
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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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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Believe Endure Man Merely Prevail
My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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Been Experience Food Little Need Own Paper Tobacco Tool Trade Whisky
As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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Capitalist Demand Expect Influence Life Live Long Money People System Under
Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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Hate Least Me Now She
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
And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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Enough Even Just Long Sure Wait Will
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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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
Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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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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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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Art Only Responsible Writer
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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Be Beter To Try Yourself
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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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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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
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