The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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All l mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don’t know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way.
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The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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