People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERPeople need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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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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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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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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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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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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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.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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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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