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The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.

William Faulkner

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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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Before Believe Believer Even Know Longer Memory Recollect Remember Wonder
There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
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Bad Better Booze Fifty Fool Happen Man Other Some Such Thing Until Whiskey
I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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Advice Even Fool Good Inability Know Make Now Own Take What
Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
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Else Infact Look Nobody See Slightly Someone Taken Together Truth
Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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Back Climb Get Hollywood Ladder Man Place Stab Where
The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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Man Salvation Suffer World
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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Curiosity Important Insight Man Most Muse Talent Think Whether Wonder
Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.
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Absorb Apprentice Carpenter Good Just Like Master Out Raed Study Window Write
I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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Badly Enough Money Want Work
If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.
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Children Color Country Culture Desperate Matter Murder Probably Reach Reason Survive
Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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Between Choice Choose Experience Given Nothing Pain Path
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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Battle Despair Even Ever Field Folly Fought Lluision Man No Only Own Reveal Victory Won
Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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Believe Endure Man Merely Prevail
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
If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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All Change Do Earth If Over People World
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
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Agony Alone Conflict Good Heart Human Itself Make Problem Worth Write
The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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Art Only Responsible Writer
The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
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Already Being Earth Homemade Human Last Launch Next Quarrel Sound Try Two Worthless
To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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Against Alaska Anywhere Color Equality Living Race Snow Today World
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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Because Practice Claim Free Freedom
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.
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Artist Choose Creature Demon Divine Him Usually Why Wonder
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
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Always Can Do Dream Higher Know Shoot You
Try to be better than yourself.
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Be Beter To Try Yourself
The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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Amn Curious Does Important Insight Most Muil Muse Thing Wonder
Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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Bad Classic Do Everything Good How Read Trash
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