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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.

William Faulkner

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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Courage Horizon Lose New Shore Sight Swim Until
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
I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
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Believe Capable Compassion Endurance Endure Man Merely Prevail Sacrifice Spirit
Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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Hate Least Me Now She
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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Curiosity Important Insight Man Most Muse Talent Think Whether Wonder
Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what’s beautiful, and it’s best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
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Beautiful Branch Country Create Describe Different Every Gesture Man People Person Remember Shadow Take Tolstoy Tree
I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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Badly Enough Money Want Work
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
Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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Better Bother Contemporaries Predecessor Try Yourself
The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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Dead Even never Not Past
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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Always Better Contemporaries Do Dream Higher Know Predecessor Shoot Try Yourself
The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
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Artist Courage Himself Honesty Kid Must Objectivity Plus Quality
At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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Important Most One Talent Thought Time
She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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Accept Capacity Give Love Shem Bore
No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
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Back Bear Cash Either Got Kidos Matter Money Paper Picture Refuse Young
Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations.
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Childhood Consequence Date Drama Echo Generation Haunt Image New Perceive Pursue Ripple Road Taken Turn Wrong
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
No one individual can tell the truth.
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Individual No One Tell Truth
Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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Go On Wonder
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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Avatar Condition Existence Fluid Individual Momentary No Only People Such Thing Time
Try to be better than yourself.
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Be Beter To Try Yourself
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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Because Practice Claim Free Freedom
The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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Art Only Responsible Writer
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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Before Born Consequence Dead Desire Environment Eternity Heredity History Labor never Past Spun Web
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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Book Friend Knew Loved Man Old One Read Return Young
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
People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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Just Matter People Salvation Sin Too Whom Word

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