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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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The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.
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Yes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
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No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
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