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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERLet 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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She was the captain of her soul
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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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A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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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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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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It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
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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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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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