There are no longer problems of the spirit. Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. But I would like to do the same with the acclaim too, by using this moment as a pinnacle from which I might be listened to by the young men and women already dedicated to the same anguish and travail, among whom is already that one who will some day stand here where I am standing. It will not be difficult to find a dedication for the money part of it commensurate with the purpose and significance of its origin. I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work – a life’s work in the agony and sweat of the human spirit, not for glory and least of all for profit, but to create out of the materials of the human spirit something which did not exist before. William Faulkner’s speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, Decem* Share via Email: William Faulkner – Banquet speech Share this content via Email.Share on LinkedIn: William Faulkner – Banquet speech Share this content on LinkedIn.Tweet: William Faulkner – Banquet speech Share this content on Twitter.
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