Wonder. Go on and wonder.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIf 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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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
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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 field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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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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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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