Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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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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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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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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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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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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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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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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