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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
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A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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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. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
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He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
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The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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