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If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.

William Faulkner

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Try to be better than yourself.
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Be Beter To Try Yourself
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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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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Advice Even Fool Good Inability Know Make Now Own Take What
Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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After Death Destroy Good Nothing Only Thing Writer
Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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Afraid Be Help Scared
Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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Bad Classic Do Everything Good How Read Trash
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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Battle Breath Conquer Ever Fought Give Moment Remember Spend Time Try Won
Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut.
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Bricklaying Interest Let Mechanical Shortcut Surgery Take Technique Write Writer
He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
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Anything False Himself Intolerance Love might Much Page Paragraph Ruthless Throw Train
The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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Artist Dream Match never Perfection Start With Work
If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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Come Has Out Story
Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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Believe Endure Man Merely Prevail
The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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Man Salvation Suffer World
Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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Better Bother Just Other Try Yourself
The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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Accept Capacity Give Love Shem Bore

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