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

William Faulkner

There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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Less Many Some Thing Thousand Three Too Word
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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Already Being Earth Homemade Human Last Launch Next Quarrel Sound Try Two Worthless
Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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Afraid Be Help Scared
Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
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Accept Brave Deserve Earn Enough Fail Find Match Only She Somebody Try Twice
The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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Agony Alone Conflict Good Heart Human Itself Make Problem Worth Write
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. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
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Artist Beg Choose Creature Demon Done Driven Everybody Steal Wonder Work
All l mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don’t know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way.
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All Another Except Have Know Mix Same String Try Way
If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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Come Has Out Story
And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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Enough Even Just Long Sure Wait Will
And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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Even Honest Liar Lie Man Same Scare Tell Torture Truth
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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Beautiful Branch Country Create Describe Different Every Gesture Man People Person Remember Shadow Take Tolstoy Tree
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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Battle Despair Even Ever Field Folly Fought Lluision Man No Only Own Reveal Victory Won
Yes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
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Damage Dead Escape Folk Hold Lay Live Man One Quiet Talk Yes
The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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Beautiful Description Most Understand Woman
The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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Every Evoke Hand Ideal Man Mind Phrase Stage Which Women Word Wrist
People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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Frustration Little Need People Sharpen Spirit Toughen Trouble

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