Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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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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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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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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I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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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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The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got it or not.
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