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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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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
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All Being Country Left Like Love Meddle People Person Snob Time
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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The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got it or not.
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Curiosity Important Insight Man Most Muse Talent Think Whether Wonder
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
As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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Capitalist Demand Expect Influence Life Live Long Money People System Under
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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Always Fact Interest Poet Really Truth Wrong
Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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Damnable Fear Human Most Personally Thing Whole World
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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Aim Arrest Artificial Artist Every Fix Hold Hundred Later Mena Motion Year
Read, read read. Read everything.
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Everything Raed
Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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Back Climb Get Hollywood Ladder Man Place Stab Where
Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
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Artist Endurance Fortitude Gutter Happy Hole Learn Live Need Rat Vegetable
All l mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don’t know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way.
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All Another Except Have Know Mix Same String Try Way
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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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Battle Ever Fool Illusion No Philosopher Victory Won
It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
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