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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.

William Faulkner

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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Better Bother Contemporaries Predecessor Try 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
Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
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Courage Cowardice Fellow Good Gun Let Run Time Toward Whether Word
A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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Call Congenitally Fiction Tell Truth Unable Write Writer
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
The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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Artist Dream Match never Perfection Start With Work
If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.
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Children Color Country Culture Desperate Matter Murder Probably Reach Reason Survive
One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
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After Day Do Eat Eight Hour Love Man One Sad Thing Work
We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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Afraid Be Ourselves Start Teach
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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Because Practice Claim Free Freedom
Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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Before Believe Believer Even Know Longer Memory Recollect Remember Wonder
I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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Advice Even Fool Good Inability Know Make Now Own Take What
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
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
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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Die End Go How Make One People Place Take Two Word
The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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Best Fiction Journalism More True

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