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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.

William Faulkner

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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
The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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Beautiful Description Most Understand Woman
It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
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Aid Anything Help Need Nothing Pride Religion When Realize
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
If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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Come Has Out Story
Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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After Death Destroy Good Nothing Only Thing Writer
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
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
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
Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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Afraid Be Help Scared
I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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Blind Individual Look Phase See Think Truth
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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Die End Go How Make One People Place Take Two Word
A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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Day Fire Man Misfortune One Sum Them Think
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
I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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Know never Read Something Think Written
To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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Against Alaska Anywhere Color Equality Living Race Snow Today World

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