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The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat

William Faulkner

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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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Artist Dream Match never Perfection Start With Work
The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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Error Follow Fool Learn Mistake Own People Teach Theory Writer Young Yourself
I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
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All Being Country Left Like Love Meddle People Person Snob Time
Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut.
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Bricklaying Interest Let Mechanical Shortcut Surgery Take Technique Write Writer
And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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Enough Even Just Long Sure Wait Will
It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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Flouted Hard Man Need Road Seem
Who gathers the withered rose?
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Gather Rose Withered
He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
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Anything False Himself Intolerance Love might Much Page Paragraph Ruthless Throw Train
Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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Cross Duty Human Inside Race Reminder Scent Symbol Whatever
A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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Fortune His Man Sum
The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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Book Friend Knew Loved Man Old One Read Return Young
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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Aim Arrest Artificial Artist Every Fix Hold Hundred Later Mena Motion Year
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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Beautiful Branch Country Create Describe Different Every Gesture Man People Person Remember Shadow Take Tolstoy Tree
Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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Do Each Fact Much Other Really Truth With
For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
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Afternoon Boy Clock Every Fourteen Instant July Once Southern Still Two Want Year Yet
So, never be afraid. 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 Injustice Lie never Raise Truth Voice

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