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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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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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Anywhere Book Else Live Love Perhaps Put Right
Civilization begins with distillation
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Begin Civilization Distillation One Liner
If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
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Classic Earth Individual Men Next Room Thousand Today Tonight Week Women
People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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Just Matter People Salvation Sin Too Whom Word
The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
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Already Being Earth Homemade Human Last Launch Next Quarrel Sound Try Two Worthless
Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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Error Learn Mistake Own People Teach Yourself
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
Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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Better Bother Just Other Try Yourself
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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Blind Individual Look Phase See Think Truth
She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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Accept Capacity Give Love Shem Bore
Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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Hate Least Me Now She
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
And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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Enough Even Just Long Sure Wait Will
The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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Always Demand Distract Event Feel Image Quotation Resonance Some
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
I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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Justmw Ay Money Say Spend Value
The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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Conflict Heart Human Itself Only Thing Worth Writing
At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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Important Most One Talent Thought Time
If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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All Change Do Earth If Over People World
If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
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Because Choose Color Country Elect First Front Homogeneous One Present Survive Unbroken World
Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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Afraid Be Help Scared
The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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Error Follow Fool Learn Mistake Own People Teach Theory Writer Young Yourself
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Courage Horizon Lose New Shore Sight Swim Until
No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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Agree Behaviour Being Christianity Code Follow Human Individual Mena Nature No One Word
Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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Between Choice Choose Experience Given Nothing Pain Path
The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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Art Only Responsible Writer
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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Artist Courage Himself Honesty Kid Must Objectivity Plus Quality

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