How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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.
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If 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.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
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Yes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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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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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
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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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If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
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