Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
WILLIAM FAULKNERA man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
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The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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Civilization begins with distillation
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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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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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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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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