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The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got it or not.

William Faulkner

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A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
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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 day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.
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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
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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 hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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