You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
WILLIAM FAULKNERSomeone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
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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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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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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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