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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.

William Faulkner

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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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Advice Even Fool Good Inability Know Make Now Own Take What
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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Already Being Earth Homemade Human Last Launch Next Quarrel Sound Try Two Worthless
Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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Go On Wonder
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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Aim Artificial Artist Every Fix Hold Hundred Later Life Look Motion Stranger Year
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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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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Back Climb Get Hollywood Ladder Man Place Stab Where
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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The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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Bad Classic Do Everything Good How Read Trash
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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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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Accept Capacity Give Love Shem Bore
Read, read read. Read everything.
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Everything Raed
It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
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Aid Anything Help Need Nothing Pride Religion When Realize
Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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Do Each Fact Much Other Really Truth With
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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You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
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Could Do Except Just Know Knowmobidy Me Much Not So You
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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Act Believe Courage Decency Demand Great Help Know Meet Problem Respect Self
If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.
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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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Build Draft First House Strong Wind Write
Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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Honest Then Unless Ashamed Yourself
We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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Afraid Be Ourselves Start Teach
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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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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