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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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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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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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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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Yes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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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. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
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Artist Beg Choose Creature Demon Done Driven Everybody Steal Wonder Work
A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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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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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
A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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Kick Labor Mule Once Patiently Privilege Ten Willingly Year You
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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A Man All Men Chance Choose Evil Fame Good Hundred Meddel Meddle Meddling One Opportunities Pass Riche Sometimes Want Welldoing

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