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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

William Faulkner

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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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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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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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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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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
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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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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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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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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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