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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.

William Faulkner

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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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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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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
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History is not was, it is.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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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.
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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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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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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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Being Click Clock Come Dead Life Little Long Stay Stop Time Wheel

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