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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERNothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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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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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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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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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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