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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.

William Faulkner

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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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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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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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History is not was, it is.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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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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Yes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
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