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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

William Faulkner

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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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Frustration Little Need People Sharpen Spirit Toughen Trouble
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
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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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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Family Memory Most Our Sweet Treasure
How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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Apply Book False Life Most Profound Turn
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
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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Every Evoke Hand Ideal Man Mind Phrase Stage Which Women Word Wrist
Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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Damnable Fear Human Most Personally Thing Whole World
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
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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Because Choose Color Country Elect First Front Homogeneous One Present Survive Unbroken World
Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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Bad Classic Do Everything Good How Read Trash
Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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Build Draft First House Strong Wind Write
Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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Do Each Fact Much Other Really Truth With
A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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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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Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
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Courage Cowardice Fellow Good Gun Let Run Time Toward Whether Word

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