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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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A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.
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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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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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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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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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