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

William Faulkner

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I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
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Beyond Broken Butterfly Could Curve Dusk Last Light Like Mirror Piece River Saw Smell Supinem Tranquil Tideflat Trembling Upon
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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Afraid Already Before Cling Ever Fellow Got might More Risk Trouble Use
Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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Do Each Fact Much Other Really Truth With
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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Artist Courage Himself Honesty Kid Must Objectivity Plus Quality
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
No one individual can tell the truth.
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Individual No One Tell Truth
For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
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Afternoon Boy Clock Every Fourteen Instant July Once Southern Still Two Want Year Yet
Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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Before Believe Believer Even Know Longer Memory Recollect Remember Wonder
It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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Flouted Hard Man Need Road Seem
War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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Buy Drink Man never Poor Thing Two War
Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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Clock Come Life Only Stop Time When
The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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Always Demand Distract Event Feel Image Quotation Resonance Some
Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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Bem Writer Writing
Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
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Avatar Condition Existence Fluid Individual Momentary No Only People Such Thing Time
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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Because Practice Claim Free Freedom
She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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Accept Capacity Give Love Shem Bore
Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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Bad Classic Do Everything Good How Read Trash
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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Always Better Contemporaries Do Dream Higher Know Predecessor Shoot Try Yourself
It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
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Aid Anything Help Need Nothing Pride Religion When Realize
The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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Always Fact Interest Poet Really Truth Wrong
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 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
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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Come Himself Infinite Man Must Patience Posses Right Self Teach Think Training Try Young
The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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Dead Even never Not Past
I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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Clock Day Every Feel Fortunately Inspiration Only Strick Ten Write
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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All Base Dream Fail Failure Impossible Match Perfection Rate Us
Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
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Being Click Clock Come Dead Life Little Long Stay Stop Time Wheel

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