"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."

Faulkner, William on Books - Reading
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"Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast."

Wilde, Oscar on Food and Eating
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"None of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves."

Wilde, Oscar on Faults
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"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."

Wilde, Oscar on Fashion
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"I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves."

Wilde, Oscar on Family
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"One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art."

Wilde, Oscar on Dress
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"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."

Wilde, Oscar on Dreams
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"The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself."

Wilde, Oscar on Advice
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"Punctuality is the thief of time. Wilde I never travel without my diary. One should always have Something sensational to read in the train."

Wilde, Oscar on Punctuality
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"When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do."

Hendrix, Jimi on Death and Dying
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"Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations."

Charell, Ralph on Expectation
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"Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself."

Wilde, Oscar on Women
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"My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]"

Hanks, Tom on Work
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"An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship."

Wilde, Oscar on Friends and Friendship
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