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    William Faulkner
    “There is no was.”
    ― William Faulkner
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    William Faulkner
    “Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.”
    ― William Faulkner
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    “Live up to your potential, not down to others expectation.”
    ― Michael Faulkner
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    William Faulkner
    “War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.”
    ― William Faulkner
    tags: drinking, war
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    William Faulkner
    “Pouring out liquor is like burning books.”
    ― William Faulkner
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: truth
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: fanaticism, zealot
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    “The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.”
    ― Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai, The Teaching of Buddha
    tags: inspirational
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    Gautama Buddha
    “With our thoughts we make the world.”
    ― Buddha
    tags: inspirational
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    Kobayashi Issa
    “Where there are humans,
    You'll find flies,
    And Buddhas.”
    ― Kobayashi Issa
    tags: buddhism, flies, zen
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    T.S. Eliot
    “This is the way the world ends
    Not with a bang but a whimper.”
    ― T.S. Eliot
    tags: apocalypse, despair, poetry
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    T.S. Eliot
    “Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.”
    ― T.S. Eliot
    tags: editor, writing
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    Flannery O'Connor
    “Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor
    tags: criticism, humor, writing
    2052 likes

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    Nelson Algren
    “Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.”
    ― Nelson Algren, A Walk on the Wild Side
    tags: relationships, survival, wisdom
    47 likes

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    Barack Obama
    “We are the change we have been waiting for.”
    ― Barack Obama
    tags: carpe-diem, change
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    Walt Kelly
    “We have met the enemy and he is us.”
    ― Walt Kelly
    tags: humorous
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    Nelson Algren
    “Any writer who knows what he's doing isn't doing very much.”
    ― Nelson Algren
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    Nelson Algren
    “... Chicago divided your heart. Leaving you loving the joint for keeps. Yet knowing it never can love you.”
    ― Nelson Algren, Chicago: City on the Make
    tags: chicago, divided, heart, urban
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    “ No amount of time can erase the memory of a good cat, and no amount of masking tape can ever totally remove his fur from your couch.”
    ― Leo Dworken
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    Haruki Murakami
    “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
    tags: books, thought
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “As long as there are slaughter houses there will always be battlefields.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, What I Believe
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