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The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.

William Faulkner

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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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She was the captain of her soul
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
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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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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Battle Ever Fool Illusion No Philosopher Victory Won
The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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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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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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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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Try to be better than yourself.
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Be Beter To Try Yourself
At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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Error Learn Mistake Own People Teach Yourself
Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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