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It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.

William Faulkner

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No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
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The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
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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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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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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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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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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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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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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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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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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

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