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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.

William Faulkner

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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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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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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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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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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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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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The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations.
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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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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