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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.

William Faulkner

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The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
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Already Being Earth Homemade Human Last Launch Next Quarrel Sound Try Two Worthless
No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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Ancestor Blindly Cling Grief Man More No One Value Vice
Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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Back Climb Get Hollywood Ladder Man Place Stab Where
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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Before Born Consequence Dead Desire Environment Eternity Heredity History Labor never Past Spun Web
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
If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
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Classic Earth Individual Men Next Room Thousand Today Tonight Week Women
I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
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Come Himself Infinite Man Must Patience Posses Right Self Teach Think Training Try Young
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
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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Bricklaying Interest Let Mechanical Shortcut Surgery Take Technique Write Writer
Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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Dead Life Long Prepare Process Time
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. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
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Artist Beg Choose Creature Demon Done Driven Everybody Steal Wonder Work
I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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Justmw Ay Money Say Spend Value
Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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Avoid Been Dangerm Fight Every Except Men Pracfist Reason Sun Under
A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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Fortune His Man Sum
There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
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Bad Better Booze Fifty Fool Happen Man Other Some Such Thing Until Whiskey
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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Cross Duty Human Inside Race Reminder Scent Symbol Whatever
How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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Apply Book False Life Most Profound Turn
Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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Bad Classic Do Everything Good How Read Trash
The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
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Admire Advice Artist Beat Believe Enough Good Matter Much Nobody Supreme
We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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Afraid Be Ourselves Start Teach
Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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Bem Writer Writing
You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
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Could Do Except Just Know Knowmobidy Me Much Not So You
Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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Honest Then Unless Ashamed Yourself
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
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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Day Fire Man Misfortune One Sum Them Think
Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
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Accept Brave Deserve Earn Enough Fail Find Match Only She Somebody Try Twice
The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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Artist Dream Match never Perfection Start With Work

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