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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.

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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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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Flouted Hard Man Need Road Seem
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 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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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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Apply Book False Life Most Profound Turn
She was the captain of her soul
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Captain Her She Soul
No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Battle Ever Fool Illusion No Philosopher Victory Won
If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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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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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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Go On Wonder
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
Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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Bem Writer Writing
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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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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Frustration Little Need People Sharpen Spirit Toughen Trouble

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