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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.

William Faulkner

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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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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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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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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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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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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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Art Only Responsible Writer
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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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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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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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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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
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