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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.

William Faulkner

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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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Anyhow Beat Dislike Even Trouble Try Uproar Wise Women
The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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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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Else Infact Look Nobody See Slightly Someone Taken Together Truth
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
Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut.
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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Family Memory Most Our Sweet Treasure
The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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Conflict Heart Human Itself Only Thing Worth Writing
Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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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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I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
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Believe Capable Compassion Endurance Endure Man Merely Prevail Sacrifice Spirit

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