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- William Faulkner: American writer
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly is having to accept it.
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The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
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A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.
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Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.
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I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't.
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If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the ''Ode on a Grecian Urn'' is worth any number of old ladies.
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If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoevski, all of us.
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Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.
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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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Oh, he's magic. Faulkner has opened passages in my brain. You do things you'd never expect.
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Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.
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Read, read, read. Read everything - trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window.
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The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.
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