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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.

William Faulkner

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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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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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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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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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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
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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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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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Civilization begins with distillation
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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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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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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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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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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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