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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.

William Faulkner

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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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Always Artist Behind Final Important Importantly Irrevocable Leave Man Mortal Oblivion Pass Possible Since Someday Something Through Wall
Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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Civilization begins with distillation
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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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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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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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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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All Alone Before Best Black Learn Leave Lot People Take Think Time Waste Way White
No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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Brother Dood Get Have One Rich Success Time
One 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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After Day Do Eat Eight Hour Love Man One Sad Thing Work
The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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Beautiful Description Most Understand Woman

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