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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.

William Faulkner

No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Battle Ever Fool Illusion No Philosopher Victory Won
Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Believe Endure Man Merely Prevail
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.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Classic Earth Individual Men Next Room Thousand Today Tonight Week Women
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 FAULKNER

Born Get Keep Lot People Same Time Try
A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Day Fire Man Misfortune One Sum Them Think
Read, read read. Read everything.
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Everything Raed
Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Bad Classic Do Everything Good How Read Trash
You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Could Do Except Just Know Knowmobidy Me Much Not So You
Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Else Infact Look Nobody See Slightly Someone Taken Together Truth
A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Fortune His Man Sum
Only when the clock stops does time come to life
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Clock Come Life Only Stop Time When
Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Absorb Apprentice Carpenter Good Just Like Master Out Raed Study Window Write
The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Amn Curious Does Important Insight Most Muil Muse Thing Wonder
If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Children Color Country Culture Desperate Matter Murder Probably Reach Reason Survive
Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Build Draft First House Strong Wind Write
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.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Aid Anything Help Need Nothing Pride Religion When Realize

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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