Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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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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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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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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Try to be better than yourself.
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Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
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Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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