You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
WILLIAM FAULKNERNo one individual can tell the truth.
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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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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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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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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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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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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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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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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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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