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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.

William Faulkner

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Yes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
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Damage Dead Escape Folk Hold Lay Live Man One Quiet Talk Yes
Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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After Death Destroy Good Nothing Only Thing Writer
Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
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Courage Cowardice Fellow Good Gun Let Run Time Toward Whether Word
Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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Better Bother Just Other Try Yourself
Try to be better than yourself.
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Be Beter To Try Yourself
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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All Base Dream Fail Failure Impossible Match Perfection Rate Us
And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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Even Honest Liar Lie Man Same Scare Tell Torture Truth
Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
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Artist Endurance Fortitude Gutter Happy Hole Learn Live Need Rat Vegetable
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
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
Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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Angel Black Clean Line Long Shine Simple Straight Truth Unchallengable Underibale View White
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
The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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Art Only Responsible Writer
I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
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Beyond Broken Butterfly Could Curve Dusk Last Light Like Mirror Piece River Saw Smell Supinem Tranquil Tideflat Trembling Upon
Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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Clock Come Life Only Stop Time When
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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Amn Curious Does Important Insight Most Muil Muse Thing Wonder

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