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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.

William Faulkner

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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
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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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Despair Field Folly Fool Illusion Man Own Philosopher Reveal Victory
Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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Believe Endure Man Merely Prevail
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
You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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Despite Fault Love Virtue You
If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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For God Hell
Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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Family Memory Most Our Sweet Treasure
There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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Less Many Some Thing Thousand Three Too Word
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
A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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Kick Labor Mule Once Patiently Privilege Ten Willingly Year You
I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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All Desire Give Hope Mausoleum
Try to be better than yourself.
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Be Beter To Try Yourself
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
The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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Always Fact Interest Poet Really Truth Wrong
I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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Justmw Ay Money Say Spend Value
I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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Clock Day Every Feel Fortunately Inspiration Only Strick Ten Write
Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
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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
You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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Anyhow Beat Dislike Even Trouble Try Uproar Wise Women
Who gathers the withered rose?
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Gather Rose Withered
A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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Call Congenitally Fiction Tell Truth Unable Write Writer
Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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Bone Flesh Illusion Like Memory Part
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
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
He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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Been Dictionary Know might never Reader Send Use Word
We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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Afraid Be Ourselves Start Teach

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