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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.

William Faulkner

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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 young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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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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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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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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Who gathers the withered rose?
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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Civilization begins with distillation
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Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what’s beautiful, and it’s best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
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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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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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She was the captain of her soul
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Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
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They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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History is not was, it is.
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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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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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