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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.

William Faulkner

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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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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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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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History is not was, it is.
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She was the captain of her soul
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
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