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Amid the pointing and the horror the clean flame.

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Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.

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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...more

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A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.

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Civilization begins with distillation

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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better tha...more

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Pleasure, ecstasy, they cannot seem to bear: their escape from it is in violence, in drinking and fighting and apparently inescapable----And so why sh...more

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Amid the pointing and the horror, the clean flame.