The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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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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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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No one individual can tell the truth.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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