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Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

Delivered at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1950
Book • 2006
In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, William Faulkner emphasizes the duty of writers to explore the human heart in conflict with itself, highlighting themes such as compassion, sacrifice, and endurance.

He urges young writers to focus on these universal truths rather than ephemeral subjects.

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