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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.

William Faulkner

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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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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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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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Between Choice Choose Experience Given Nothing Pain Path
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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Error Follow Fool Learn Mistake Own People Teach Theory Writer Young Yourself
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 know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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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 happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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Can Happy Must Suffer Will
The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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Conflict Heart Human Itself Only Thing Worth Writing
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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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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Accept Action Bear Burden Consequences Gentlemen Responsibility
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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Else Infact Look Nobody See Slightly Someone Taken Together Truth
Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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Honest Then Unless Ashamed Yourself
No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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Ancestor Blindly Cling Grief Man More No One Value Vice
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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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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Admire Advice Artist Beat Believe Enough Good Matter Much Nobody Supreme
The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut.
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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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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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Country First People Person Place Understand World
You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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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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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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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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