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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.

William Faulkner

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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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Civilization begins with distillation
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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 bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got it or not.
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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She was the captain of her soul
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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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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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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Buy Drink Man never Poor Thing Two War
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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