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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.

William Faulkner

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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
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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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History is not was, it is.
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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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Even Honest Liar Lie Man Same Scare Tell Torture Truth
Read, read read. Read everything.
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Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
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Always Artist Behind Final Important Importantly Irrevocable Leave Man Mortal Oblivion Pass Possible Since Someday Something Through Wall
A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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Advice Even Fool Good Inability Know Make Now Own Take What
Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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Better Bother Just Other Try Yourself
Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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Bem Writer Writing
You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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Country First People Person Place Understand World

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