Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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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Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut.
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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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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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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.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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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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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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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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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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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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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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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.
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