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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.

William Faulkner

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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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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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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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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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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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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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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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The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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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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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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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
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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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I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
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