A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
WILLIAM FAULKNERRead, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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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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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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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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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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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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Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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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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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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