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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…

William Faulkner

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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
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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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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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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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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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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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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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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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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.
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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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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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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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