William Faulkner - Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech (1950)

The go-to YouTube version cuts off right at the end - here is the “entire“ recording, which, incidentally, was also cut off when it was originally made. The text of the full speech, with the last (missing) paragraph, is below: Ladies and gentlemen, 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