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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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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.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Always Better Contemporaries Do Dream Higher Know Predecessor Shoot Try Yourself
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
Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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Hate Least Me Now She
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Always Can Do Dream Higher Know Shoot You
No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Agree Behaviour Being Christianity Code Follow Human Individual Mena Nature No One Word
Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Long Night Nothing Omisison One Regret Sleppeless Tomorrow Wrest
Yes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
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Damage Dead Escape Folk Hold Lay Live Man One Quiet Talk Yes
Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Back Climb Get Hollywood Ladder Man Place Stab Where
There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Less Many Some Thing Thousand Three Too Word
A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Kick Labor Mule Once Patiently Privilege Ten Willingly Year You
Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Bem Writer Writing
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.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Could Do Except Just Know Knowmobidy Me Much Not So You
How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Apply Book False Life Most Profound Turn
Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Else Infact Look Nobody See Slightly Someone Taken Together Truth
Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Better Bother Just Other Try Yourself
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.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Aid Anything Help Need Nothing Pride Religion When Realize

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