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A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.

William Faulkner

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No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
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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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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got it or not.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought.
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History is not was, it is.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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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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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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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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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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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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