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“The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all written about the same things, and if they had lived one thousand or two thousand years longer, the publishers wouldn't have needed anyone since.”
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“Loving all of it even while he had to hate some of it because he knows now that you don't love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.”
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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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“To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi”
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“Mississippi begins in a lobby of a Memphis, Tennessee hotel and extends south to the Gulf of Mexico”
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“Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain”
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“Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday's omissions and regrets”
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“The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail”
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“A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others”
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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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“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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