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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…

William Faulkner

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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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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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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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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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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
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Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
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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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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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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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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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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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