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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.

William Faulkner

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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
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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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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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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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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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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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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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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
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