Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
WILLIAM FAULKNERHaunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations.
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He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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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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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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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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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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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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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
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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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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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