Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations.
WILLIAM FAULKNEROne of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
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I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
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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.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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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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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.
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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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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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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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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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