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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.

William Faulkner

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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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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.
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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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History is not was, it is.
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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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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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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
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