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    William Faulkner
    “I dont hate it he thought, panting in the cold air, the iron New England dark; I dont. I dont! I dont hate it! I dont hate it!”
    ― William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!
    tags: cold, dark, new-england, winter
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    William Faulkner
    “Tell about the South. What's it like there. What do they do there. Why do they live there. Why do they live at all.”
    ― William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!
    tags: page-142, shreve
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    William Faulkner
    “...I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...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. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.”
    ― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
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    Margaret Atwood
    “Hatred would have been easier. With hatred, I would have known what to do. Hatred is clear, metallic, one-handed, unwavering; unlike love.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye
    tags: hatred, love
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    Margaret Atwood
    “Forgiving men is so much easier than forgiving women.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye
    tags: forgiveness, men, women
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    Margaret Atwood
    “I knew what love was supposed to be: obsession with undertones of nausea. ”
    ― Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye
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    William S. Burroughs
    “The junk merchant doesn't sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the client.”
    ― William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
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    William S. Burroughs
    “Confusion hath fuck his masterpiece.”
    ― William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
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    William S. Burroughs
    “There is only one thing a writer can write about: what is in front of his senses at the moment of writing... I am a recording instrument... I do not presume to impose “story” “plot” “continuity”... Insofar as I succeed in Direct recording of certain areas of psychic process I may have limited function... I am not an entertainer...”
    ― William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
    tags: writing, writing-process
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    William S. Burroughs
    “I know this one pusher walks around humming a tune and everybody he passes takes it up. He is so grey and spectral and anonymous they don't see him and think it is their own mind humming the tune.”
    ― William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
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    William S. Burroughs
    “Well as, one judge said to the other, 'Be just and if you can't be just be arbitrary.' Regret cannot observe customary obscenities.”
    ― William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
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    William S. Burroughs
    “A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. ”
    ― William S. Burroughs
    tags: drugs, philosophy, politics
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    William S. Burroughs
    “There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.”
    ― William S. Burroughs
    tags: love, risk
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    William S. Burroughs
    “Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.”
    ― William S. Burroughs
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    William S. Burroughs
    “Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.”
    ― William S. Burroughs, The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs
    tags: introspection, loquacity, remaining-silent, reticence, silence
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    William S. Burroughs
    “I don't care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.”
    ― William S. Burroughs
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    William S. Burroughs
    “Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape. ”
    ― William S. Burroughs
    tags: burroughs, change, escape, inspirational
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    William S. Burroughs
    “Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered, and I fear I never will.”
    ― William S. Burroughs
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    William S. Burroughs
    “When you stop growing you start dying.”
    ― William S. Burroughs, Junky
    tags: dying, growing
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    William S. Burroughs
    “You know a real friend?
    Someone you know will look after your cat after you are gone.”
    ― William S. Burroughs, Last Words: The Final Journals
    tags: cats, friends, friendship
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    William S. Burroughs
    “After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.”
    ― William S. Burroughs, The Adding Machine: Selected Essays
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    William S. Burroughs
    “Writers, like elephants, have long, vicious memories. There are things I wish I could forget.”
    ― William S. Burroughs
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    William Faulkner
    “Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”
    ― William Faulkner
    tags: inspirational, perfectionism, personality, potential, self-improvement
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    William Faulkner
    “Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.”
    ― William Faulkner, The Wild Palms
    tags: life-experience, poetry, sorrow
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    William Faulkner
    “In writing, you must kill all your darlings.”
    ― William Faulkner
    tags: revision, writing
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    William Faulkner
    “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. ”
    ― William Faulkner
    tags: funny, harsh, ironic
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    Paul Tillich
    “Neurosis is the way of avoiding nonbeing by avoiding being”
    ― Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be
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    José Saramago
    “Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.”
    ― José Saramago, Blindness
    tags: self-determination, soul
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    José Saramago
    “Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all.”
    ― Jose Saramago
    tags: nobel-acceptance-speech
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    Paul Tillich
    “The vitality that can stand the abyss of meaninglessness is aware of a hidden meaning within the destruction of meaning.”
    ― Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be
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