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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.

William Faulkner

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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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Bad Classic Do Everything Good How Read Trash
Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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Ever Kno Mean Men More Possibly Women Wor
Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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Anywhere Book Else Live Love Perhaps Put Right
All l mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don’t know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way.
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All Another Except Have Know Mix Same String Try Way
For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
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Afternoon Boy Clock Every Fourteen Instant July Once Southern Still Two Want Year Yet
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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Anything False Himself Intolerance Love might Much Page Paragraph Ruthless Throw Train
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Courage Horizon Lose New Shore Sight Swim Until
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.
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Artist Choose Creature Demon Divine Him Usually Why Wonder
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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Against Alaska Anywhere Color Equality Living Race Snow Today World
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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Artist Courage Himself Honesty Kid Must Objectivity Plus Quality
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
Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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Cam Do Not What You
The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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Every Evoke Hand Ideal Man Mind Phrase Stage Which Women Word Wrist
He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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Been Dictionary Know might never Reader Send Use Word
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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Beck Call Cent Dammed Every Invest Itinerant Postage Propose Resignation Scoundrel Sir Stamp Two
Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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Heartbreaking Stupidity Talk Utter Word

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