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Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.

William Faulkner

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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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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
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