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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

William Faulkner

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Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
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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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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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All l mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don’t know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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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.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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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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