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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.

William Faulkner

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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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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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Better Bother Contemporaries Predecessor Try Yourself
They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
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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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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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History is not was, it is.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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Because Choose Color Country Elect First Front Homogeneous One Present Survive Unbroken World
Try to be better than yourself.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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Because Practice Claim Free Freedom
A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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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
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