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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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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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Artist Dream Match never Perfection Start With Work
Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Battle Despair Even Ever Field Folly Fought Lluision Man No Only Own Reveal Victory Won
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
Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
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Accept Brave Deserve Earn Enough Fail Find Match Only She Somebody Try Twice
You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
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Could Do Except Just Know Knowmobidy Me Much Not So You
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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Classic Earth Individual Men Next Room Thousand Today Tonight Week Women
Try to be better than yourself.
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Be Beter To Try Yourself
It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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Flouted Hard Man Need Road Seem
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
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
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
Who gathers the withered rose?
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Gather Rose Withered
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
I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
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Act Believe Courage Decency Demand Great Help Know Meet Problem Respect Self
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
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
Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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Cross Duty Human Inside Race Reminder Scent Symbol Whatever
The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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Art Only Responsible Writer
If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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Can Happy Must Suffer Will
If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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All Change Do Earth If Over People World
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
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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Because Practice Claim Free Freedom
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
The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
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Already Being Earth Homemade Human Last Launch Next Quarrel Sound Try Two Worthless
History is not was, it is.
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History Not Was
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
Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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Family Memory Most Our Sweet Treasure

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