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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

William Faulkner

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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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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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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
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The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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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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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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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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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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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
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The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
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