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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.

William Faulkner

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The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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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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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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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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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
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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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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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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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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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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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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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