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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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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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The 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.
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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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There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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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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