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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.

William Faulkner

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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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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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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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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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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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