Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
WILLIAM FAULKNERA man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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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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Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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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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