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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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Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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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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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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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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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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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
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Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what’s beautiful, and it’s best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
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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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