Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
WILLIAM FAULKNERRemember, 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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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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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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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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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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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
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Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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