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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

William Faulkner

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The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
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Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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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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Afraid Already Before Cling Ever Fellow Got might More Risk Trouble Use
People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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Frustration Little Need People Sharpen Spirit Toughen Trouble
But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
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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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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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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.
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Absorb Apprentice Carpenter Good Just Like Master Out Raed Study Window Write
No one individual can tell the truth.
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Individual No One Tell Truth
Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
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Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what’s beautiful, and it’s best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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Clock Day Every Feel Fortunately Inspiration Only Strick Ten Write
I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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Badly Enough Money Want Work

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