He (the writer) must teach himself that the basest of all things
is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever
leaving no room in his workshop for anything but the old verities
and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking which
any story is ephemeral and doomed - love and honor and pity and
pride and compassion and sacrifice.

William Faulkner, Nobel Prize Speech, 195O

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