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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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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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Accept Capacity Give Love Shem Bore
Try to be better than yourself.
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Be Beter To Try Yourself
It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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Began Now Over See Tomorrow Until Yesterday
And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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Enough Even Just Long Sure Wait Will
If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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All Change Do Earth If Over People World
The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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Better Bother Just Other Try Yourself
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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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.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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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
For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
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Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
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Courage Cowardice Fellow Good Gun Let Run Time Toward Whether Word
A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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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 most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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Beautiful Description Most Understand Woman
I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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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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Advice Even Fool Good Inability Know Make Now Own Take What
Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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Die Do Love Men Women
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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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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Bus Desk Station Stop Train Work

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