The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
WILLIAM FAULKNERTruth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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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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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
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