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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

William Faulkner

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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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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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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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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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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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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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