The only thing that can ruin a good day is people.

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

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You’ll ache. And you’re going to love it. It will crush you. And you’re still going to love all of it.

I have watched them all day and they are the same men that we are. I believe that I could walk up to the mill and knock on the door and I would be welcome except that they have orders to challenge all travelers and ask to see their papers. It is only orders that come between us. Those men are not fascists. I call them so, but they are not. They are poor men as we are. They should never be fighting against us and I do not like to think of the killing.

Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.