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William Faulkner byl americký prozaik a básník, nositel Nobelovy ceny za literaturu za rok 1949. Je považován za zakladatele americké jižanské literatury 20. století. Wikipedia  

✵ 25. září 1897 – 6. červenec 1962
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William Faulkner nejznámější citáty

„Vždy sněte a střílejte výš než víte, že můžete. Nesnažte se být lepší než vaši současníci nebo vaši předkové. Snažte se být lepší než vy sami.“

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

“She was the captain of her soul”

William Faulkner kniha Light in August

Zdroj: Light in August

“My, my. A body does get around.”

William Faulkner kniha Light in August

Zdroj: Light in August

“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

“I dont hate it he thought, panting in the cold air, the iron New England dark; I dont. I dont! I dont hate it! I dont hate it!”

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!

“Because Father said clocks slay time. He said time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.”

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)

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