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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.

William Faulkner

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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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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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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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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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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
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Admire Advice Artist Beat Believe Enough Good Matter Much Nobody Supreme
You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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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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Civilization begins with distillation
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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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 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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