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 FAULKNERIf 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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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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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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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.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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