It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIf you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
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Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what’s beautiful, and it’s best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
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