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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.

William Faulkner

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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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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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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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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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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is 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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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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Know never Read Something Think Written
I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
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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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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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Been Dictionary Know might never Reader Send Use Word
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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Bad Better Booze Fifty Fool Happen Man Other Some Such Thing Until Whiskey
It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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Began Now Over See Tomorrow Until Yesterday
The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got it or not.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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Accept Capacity Give Love Shem Bore

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