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 FAULKNERThey say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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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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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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