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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERGiven the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
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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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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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