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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.

William Faulkner

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It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
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Day Drink Eat Eight Hour Make Man One Shame Thing Work
The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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Dream End Enough IT Lose Seek Wisdom
At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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Important Most One Talent Thought Time
Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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Discharge Electricity Exist Gratitude Order Produce Quality Similar Use
If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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For God Hell
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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A Man All Men Chance Choose Evil Fame Good Hundred Meddel Meddle Meddling One Opportunities Pass Riche Sometimes Want Welldoing
The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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Conflict Heart Human Itself Only Thing Worth Writing
If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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Come Has Out Story
Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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Bem Writer Writing
Yes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
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Damage Dead Escape Folk Hold Lay Live Man One Quiet Talk Yes
If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
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Classic Earth Individual Men Next Room Thousand Today Tonight Week Women
Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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Between Choice Choose Experience Given Nothing Pain Path
I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
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Act Believe Courage Decency Demand Great Help Know Meet Problem Respect Self
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Courage Horizon Lose New Shore Sight Swim Until
History is not was, it is.
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History Not Was
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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Afraid Against Compassion Greed Honesty Lie never Raise Truth

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