A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
WILLIAM FAULKNERJust 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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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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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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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 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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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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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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I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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