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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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“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
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“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
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“It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.”
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