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.”
Zdroj: The Sound and the Fury
“I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.”
Zdroj: Light in August
“I am not one of those women who can stand things.”
Zdroj: The Sound and the Fury
“I took out my watch and listened to it clicking away, not knowing it couldn't even lie”
Zdroj: The Sound and the Fury
On himself and his contemporaries.
Paris Review interview (1958)
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.”
Zdroj: Absalom, Absalom!
“Even sound seemed to fail in this air, like the air was worn out with carrying sounds so long.”
Zdroj: 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)