At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
WILLIAM FAULKNERAlways 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.
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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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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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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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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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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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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You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
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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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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
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