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... in an even wilder part of the river's jungle of cane and gum and pin oak, there is an Indian mou...
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When I was fifteen, a companion and I, on a dare, went into the mound one day just at sunset. We saw...
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Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the ...
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living ...
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Be scared. You cant help that. But dont be afraid. Aint nothing in the woods going to hurt you unles...
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The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
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If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoevski, all of us.
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.
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If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the Ode on a Grecian Urn is worth any numbe...
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The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. ...
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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little...
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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times an...
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I decline to accept the end of man. It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he ...
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying...
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Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just lik...
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are.
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The past is never dead. It's not even past.
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so...
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure: that when the last ding...
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If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first...
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Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than y...
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be ...
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A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the ...
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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual's i...
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too b...
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so...
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People need trouble -- a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don'...
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The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the revi...
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failur...
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Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.
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I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work - a life's work in the agony and ...
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Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly is having to accept it.
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Maybe it was because like not only finds like; it can't even escape from being found by its like. E...
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There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps i...
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The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship...
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When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar.
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The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.
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Read, read, read. Read everything-- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like...
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I learned little save that most of the deeds, good and bad both, incurring opprobrium or plaudits or...
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I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.
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The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.
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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your co...
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Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yours...
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers.

[Light in August]
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Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in ...
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the two girls emanated an incorrigible idle inertia.
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The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past.
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The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the rev...
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Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yours...
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People between 20 and 40 are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It...
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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after ...
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The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to he...
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Henry James was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met.
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Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does tim...
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People need trouble -- a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don...
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This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them.
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Pointless. . . . Like giving caviar to an elephant.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain
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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after ...
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Between pain and nothing, I choose pain
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Only vegetables are happy
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He [the writer] must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid and, teaching himse...
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even ...
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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his o...
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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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No man can write who is not first a humanitarian
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Purity is a negative state and therefore contrary to nature.
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I believe that man will not merely endure. He will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone amo...
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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in ord...
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I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries t...
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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight ...
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For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant w...
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In writing, you must kill all your darlings.
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Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.
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Life is not interested in good and evil. Don Quixote was constantly choosing between good and evil, ...
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Let me repeat. I have not read all the work of this present generation of writing. I have not had ti...
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With the gun which was too big for him, the breech-loader which did not even belong to him but to Ma...
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He was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met
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Don't read that trash; read this.
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You can't beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don't even tr...
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It's like it ain't so much what a fellow does, but it's the way the majority of folks is looking at ...
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It's not when you realise that nothing can help you - religion, pride, anything - it's when you real...
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Listen: it’s got to be all honeymoon, always.
Either heaven, or hell:
no comfortable s...
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A gentleman can live through anything.
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We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equa...
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I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer th...
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. . . and that sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor fear...
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I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.
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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times an...
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Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your con...
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color, is like living...
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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Inj...
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A hack writer who would not have been considered a fourth rate in Europe, who tricked out a few of t...
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There is no such thing as was—only is. If was existed, there would be no grief or sorrow.
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Dalton Ames. Dalton Ames. Dalton Shirts. I thought all the time they were khaki, army issue khaki, u...
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that — the young man or the...
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It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can...
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Meet Mrs. Bundren
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I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it t...
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The work of the artist is to lift up peoples hearts and help them endure
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In my time I have seen truth that was anything under the sun but just, and I have seen justice using...
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I reckon it does take a powerful trust in the Lord to guard a fellow, though sometimes I think that ...
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Maybe times are never strange to women: it is just one continuous monotonous thing full of the repea...
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The American really loves nothing but his automobile: not his wife his child nor his country nor eve...
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It does last," Horace said. "Spring does. You'd almost think there was some purpose to it.
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Even at sixty-two, I can still go harder and further and longer than some of the others. That is, I ...
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Mississippi begins in a lobby of a Memphis, Tennessee hotel and extends south to the Gulf of Mexico
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Read, read, read. Read everything - trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like...
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A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.
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Why that's a hundred miles away. That's a long way to go just to eat.
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Once a bitch always a bitch, what I say.
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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and selfrespect and whatever...
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It is assumed that anyone who makes a million dollars has a unique gift, though he might have made i...
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Some things you must always be unable to bear.
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Home again, his native land; he was born of it and his bones will sleep in it . . .
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Perhaps they were right in putting love into books, . . . Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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The young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with ...
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Well, between Scotch and nothin', I suppose I'd take Scotch. It's the nearest thing to good moonshin...
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If I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants hi...
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The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies.
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Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief.
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Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear ...
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In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior; in America, it's an excuse for a form of behavior.
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In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior; in America, being an artist is an excuse for a for...
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Forget grief. Only an idiot has no grief, and only a fool would forget it. What else is there in thi...
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As you entered the room the thing drew your eyes: you turned sharply as to a sound, expecting moveme...
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You tell 'em, big boy; treat 'em rough.
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All of us have failed to match our dream of perfection. I rate us on the basis of our splendid failu...
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Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.
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I lied," I said. ...
"I know it," he said.
"Then do something about it. Do anything, just ...
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The woman went on. She had not looked back. She went out of sight up the road: swollen, slow, delibe...
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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary."
(on Ernest H...
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I'm inclined to think that a military background wouldn't hurt anyone.
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Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is...
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Aquí fue donde vi el río por última vez esta mañana, aproximadamente aquí. Más allá del crep�...
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Je me rappelais que mon père avait coutume de dire que le but de la vie c'est de se préparer à re...
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don't do it with talk, with words. Women know more about wor...
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Others have done it before me. I can, too.
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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He turned into the road at that slow and ponderous gallop, the two of them, man and beast, leaning a...
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My, my. A body does get around.
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What matters is at the end of life, when you're about to pass into oblivion, that you've at least sc...
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He got off on Lincoln and slavery and dared any man there to deny that Lincoln and the negro and Mos...
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...no man can cause more grief than the one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancesters.
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He began to breathe deep. He could feel himself breathing deep, as if each time his insides were afr...
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It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret. Father said that. That Christ was not...
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You are suffering from disappointment. But this will pass away. The saddest thing about love, Joe, i...
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The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heart...
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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Most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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People. They're really innately, inherently gentle and compassionate and kind. That's what wrings, w...
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The destiny of the land, the nation, the South, the State, the County, was already whirling into the...
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Government was founded on the working premiss of being primarily an asylum for ineptitude and indige...
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Menfolks listens to somebody because of what he says. Women don't. They don't care what he said. The...
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But something held him, as the fatalist can always be held: by curiosity, pessimism, by sheer inerti...
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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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...
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Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything good.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love. Only she tried tw...
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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...I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time...
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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his o...
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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And when a man that old takes up money-hunting, it's like when he takes up gambling or whisky or wom...
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Did you ever have a sister? did you?
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Caddy smelled like trees.
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a fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he's already got...
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In a strange room you must empty yourself for sleep. And before you are emptied for sleep, what are ...
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How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.

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