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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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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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Book Burn Like Liquior Out Pour
Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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Family Memory Most Our Sweet Treasure
Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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Hate Least Me Now She
Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
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Anything False Himself Intolerance Love might Much Page Paragraph Ruthless Throw Train
Try to be better than yourself.
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Be Beter To Try Yourself
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
They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
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Chronic Deceive Himself Liar Lie Only Practical Quickest Say Selfconvicted Veracity
The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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Art Only Responsible Writer
Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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Error Learn Mistake Own People Teach Yourself
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
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
Who gathers the withered rose?
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Gather Rose Withered
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Begin Civilization Distillation One Liner
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

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