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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.

William Faulkner

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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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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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I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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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
The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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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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