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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.

William Faulkner

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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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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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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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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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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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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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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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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
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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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She was the captain of her soul
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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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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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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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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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If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.
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