Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
WILLIAM FAULKNERYou don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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Civilization begins with distillation
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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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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I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
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History is not was, it is.
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The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
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