

“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's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
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Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
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“Once a bitch always a bitch, what I say.”
― The Sound and the Fury
― The Sound and the Fury

“We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.”
― Essays, Speeches & Public Letters
― Essays, Speeches & Public Letters

“The past is never dead. It's not even past.”
― Requiem for a Nun
― Requiem for a Nun

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