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And sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough.
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She was the captain of her soul.
William Faulkner
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I am not one of those women who can stand things.
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History is not was, it is.
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I say money has no value; it's just the way you spend it.
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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 help him endure and prevail.
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Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest.
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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
William Faulkner
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I notice how it takes a lazy man, a man that hates moving, to get set on moving once he does get started off, the same as when he was set on staying still, like it aint the moving he hates so much as the starting and the stopping. And like he would be kind of proud of whatever come up to make the moving or the setting still look hard. He set there on the wagon hunched up, blinking, listening to us tell about how quick the bridge went and how high the water was, and I be durn if he didn't act like he was proud of it, like he had made the river rise himself.
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When the switch fell I could feel it upon my flesh; when it welted and ridged it was my blood that ran, and I would think with each blow of the switch: Now you are aware of me! Now I am something in your secret and selfish life, who have marked your blood with my own for ever and ever.
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A dream is not a very safe thing to be near... I know; I had one once. It's like a loaded pistol with a hair trigger: if it stays alive long enough, somebody is going to be hurt. But if it's a good dream, it's worth it.
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Everything in Los Angeles is too large, too loud and usually banal in concept… The plastic asshole of the world.
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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.
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Setting an example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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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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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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And when I think about that, I think that if nothing but being married will help a man, he's durn nigh hopeless.
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Don Quixote — I read that every year, as some do the Bible.
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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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You don't dare think whole even to yourself the entirety of a dear hope or wish let alone a desperate one else you yourself have doomed it.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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Curiosity is a mistress whose slaves decline no sacrifice.
William Faulkner