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I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.

William Faulkner

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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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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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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought.
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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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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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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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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 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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