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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.

William Faulkner

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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
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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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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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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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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got it or not.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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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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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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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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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 mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
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Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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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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She was the captain of her soul
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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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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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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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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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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