William Faulkner nejznámější citáty
Zdroj: [Perkins, George B., The theory of the American novel, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970, 356, angličtina]
William Faulkner: Citáty o lidech
William Faulkner citáty a výroky
„Nikdy nepoužil slovo, kvůli kterému by čtenář musel zalistovat ve slovníku.“
o Ernestu Hemingwayovi
Originál: (en) He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
Zdroj: [Eldridge, Richard Thomas, The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Literature, Oxford Handbooks Online, 2009, 493, angličtina]
William Faulkner: Citáty anglicky
“I say money has no value; it's just the way you spend it.”
William Faulkner kniha The Sound and the Fury
Zdroj: The Sound and the Fury
“I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.”
William Faulkner kniha Light in August
Zdroj: Light in August
“I am not one of those women who can stand things.”
William Faulkner kniha The Sound and the Fury
Zdroj: The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner kniha Light in August
Zdroj: Light in August
William Faulkner kniha The Sound and the Fury
Zdroj: The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner kniha As I Lay Dying
Zdroj: As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner kniha The Sound and the Fury
Zdroj: The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner kniha The Sound and the Fury
Zdroj: The Sound and the Fury
“I took out my watch and listened to it clicking away, not knowing it couldn't even lie”
William Faulkner kniha The Sound and the Fury
Zdroj: The Sound and the Fury
On himself and his contemporaries.
Paris Review interview (1958)
William Faulkner kniha Absalom, Absalom!
The Mansion (1959)
Zdroj: Absalom, Absalom!
Kontext: Or maybe married men dont even need reasons, being as they already got wives. Or maybe it's women that dont need reasons, for the simple reason that they never heard of a reason and wouldn't recognise it face to face, since they dont function from reasons but from necessities that couldn't nobody help nohow and that dont nobody but a fool man want to help in the second place, because he dont know no better; it aint women, it's men that takes ignorance seriously, getting into a skeer [scare] over something for no more reason than that they dont happen to know what it is.
V. K. Ratliff in Ch. 6
“I am older at twenty than a lot of people who have died.”
William Faulkner kniha Absalom, Absalom!
Zdroj: Absalom, Absalom!
“Even sound seemed to fail in this air, like the air was worn out with carrying sounds so long.”
William Faulkner kniha The Sound and the Fury
Zdroj: The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner kniha The Sound and the Fury
Varianta: 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.
Zdroj: The Sound and the Fury (1929)
