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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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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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All Alone Before Best Black Learn Leave Lot People Take Think Time Waste Way White
We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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Afraid Be Ourselves Start Teach
I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
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Act Believe Courage Decency Demand Great Help Know Meet Problem Respect Self
Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut.
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Bricklaying Interest Let Mechanical Shortcut Surgery Take Technique Write Writer
People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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Just Matter People Salvation Sin Too Whom Word
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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Anyhow Beat Dislike Even Trouble Try Uproar Wise Women
Who gathers the withered rose?
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Gather Rose Withered
Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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Discharge Electricity Exist Gratitude Order Produce Quality Similar Use
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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Afraid Against Compassion Greed Honesty Lie never Raise Truth
A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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Kick Labor Mule Once Patiently Privilege Ten Willingly Year You
Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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Bad Classic Do Everything Good How Read Trash
War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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Buy Drink Man never Poor Thing Two War
No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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Ancestor Blindly Cling Grief Man More No One Value Vice
Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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Afraid Be Help Scared
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
All l mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don’t know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way.
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All Another Except Have Know Mix Same String Try Way

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