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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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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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Battle Despair Even Ever Field Folly Fought Lluision Man No Only Own Reveal Victory Won
The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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Best Fiction Journalism More True
A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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Any Experience Imagination Lack Need Observation One Other Supply Thing Three Time Two Writer
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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Before Born Consequence Dead Desire Environment Eternity Heredity History Labor never Past Spun Web
The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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Man Salvation Suffer World
Civilization begins with distillation
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Begin Civilization Distillation One Liner
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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Always Better Contemporaries Do Dream Higher Know Predecessor Shoot Try Yourself
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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Afraid Already Before Cling Ever Fellow Got might More Risk Trouble Use
For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
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Afternoon Boy Clock Every Fourteen Instant July Once Southern Still Two Want Year Yet
History is not was, it is.
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History Not Was
Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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Error Learn Mistake Own People Teach Yourself
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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Absorb Apprentice Carpenter Good Just Like Master Out Raed Study Window Write
She was the captain of her soul
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Captain Her She Soul
Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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Bone Flesh Illusion Like Memory Part
The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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Dream End Enough IT Lose Seek Wisdom
If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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Can Happy Must Suffer Will

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