William Faulkner citáty (247 citátů, strana 5)

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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]

„Pokud je ve vás příběh, musí vyjít.“

William Faulkner

„Muž, který odstraní horu, začíná odnášením malých kamenů.“

William Faulkner

„Jednoho dne se ožení a na krátkou chvíli budou prožívat tu krátkou, neskutečnou blaženost, která sama v sobě nese svou pomíjivost, a proč se tudíž radovat. A uchovají si, snad si na ni dokonce uchovají vzpomínky do doby, kdy tělo už nemá tělu co říci, protože alespoň paměť trvá.“

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„Srdce je nestálé. Jak jinak by mohlo udržovat v člověku život.“

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„Kdo shromažďuje uschlou růži?“

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„Vylévání alkoholu je jako pálení knih.“

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„A nebyl dost starý na to, aby promluvil a zároveň neřekl nic.“

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„Gentleman přijímá odpovědnost za své činy a nese břemeno jejich důsledků.“

William Faulkner

„Jistě, dokonce i čekání skončí... pokud vydržíte dostatečně dlouho čekat.“

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„Chceme být volní ne proto, že vyžadujeme svobodu, ale proto, že ji praktikujeme.“

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„Pokud bych si mohl vybrat mezi bolestivou zkušeností a ničím, vybral bych si bolest.“

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„Když se příště pokusíte někoho svést, nedělejte to slovy. Ženy vědí o slovech více než muži. A vědí, jak málo mohou někdy znamenat.“

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„Cítím se jako mokrý zárodek divočiny v horké slepé zemi.“

William Faulkner

„Při psaní musíte zabít všechny své miláčky.“

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„Nebuďte "spisovatelem". Jen pište.“

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William Faulkner: Citáty anglicky

“The phenomenon of war is its hermaphroditism: the principles of victory and of defeat inhabit the same body and the necessary opponent, enemy, is merely the bed they self-exhaust each other on.”

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William Faulkner kniha A Fable

Zdroj: A Fable

“The sun, an hour above the horizon, is poised like a bloody egg upon a crest of thunderheads; the light has turned copper: in the eye portentous, in the nose sulphurous, smelling of lightning.”

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William Faulkner kniha As I Lay Dying

Zdroj: As I Lay Dying

“It's because I'm alone.. If I could just feel it, it would be different, because I would not be alone. But if I were not alone, everybody would know it. And he could do so much for me, and then I would not be alone. Then I could be all right alone.”

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William Faulkner kniha As I Lay Dying

Zdroj: As I Lay Dying

“Tell about the South. What's it like there. What do they do there. Why do they live there. Why do they live at all.”

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William Faulkner kniha Absalom, Absalom!

Zdroj: Absalom, Absalom!

“I was wrong. I admit it. I believed that there were things which still mattered just because they had mattered once. But I was wrong. Nothing matters but breath, breathing, to know and to be alive.”

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William Faulkner kniha Absalom, Absalom!

Zdroj: Absalom, Absalom!

“There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.”

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“It was like something you have dreaded and feared and dodged for years until it seemed like all your life, then despite everything it happened to you and all it was was just pain, all it did was hurt and so it was all over, all finished, all right.”

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William Faulkner kniha Intruder in the Dust

Zdroj: Intruder in the Dust

“Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too.”

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William Faulkner kniha Light in August

Zdroj: Light in August

“And he was not old enough to talk and say nothing at the same time.”

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William Faulkner kniha Light in August

Zdroj: Light in August

“Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain't got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.”

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William Faulkner kniha Light in August

Zdroj: Light in August

“Knowing not grieving remembers a thousand savage and lonely streets.”

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William Faulkner kniha Light in August

Zdroj: Light in August

“Did you ever have a sister? did you?”

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William Faulkner kniha The Sound and the Fury

Zdroj: The Sound and the Fury

“There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, the gamble. In any event it's a thing I need.”

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As quoted in "Visit to Two-Finger Typist" by Elliot Chaze in LIFE magazine (14 July 1961)

“I believe in God, God. God, I believe in God.”

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William Faulkner kniha As I Lay Dying

Zdroj: As I Lay Dying

“One day I was talking to Cora. She prayed for me because she believed I was blind to sin, wanting me to kneel and pray too, because people to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.”

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William Faulkner kniha As I Lay Dying

Zdroj: As I Lay Dying

“There is no such thing as was—only is. If was existed, there would be no grief or sorrow.”

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“… how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.”

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William Faulkner kniha Light in August

Zdroj: Light in August

“Ever since then I have believed that God is not only a gentleman and a sport; he is a Kentuckian too.”

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“The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.”

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“We shall not kill and maybe next time we even won't.”

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William Faulkner kniha Intruder in the Dust

Zdroj: Intruder in the Dust

“I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better.”

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“An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn’t
know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder
why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or
steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.”

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“When I was little there was a picture in one of our books, a dark place into which a single weak ray of light came slanting upon two faces lifted out of the shadow.”

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William Faulkner kniha The Sound and the Fury

Zdroj: The Sound and the Fury

“That’s what they mean by the womb of time: the agony and the despair of spreading bones, the hard girdle in which lie the outraged entrails of events.”

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William Faulkner kniha As I Lay Dying

Zdroj: As I Lay Dying

“Who gathers the withered rose?”

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William Faulkner kniha Soldiers' Pay

Zdroj: Soldiers' Pay

“… surely there is something in madness, even the demoniac, which Satan flees, aghast at his own handiwork, and which God looks on in pity..”

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William Faulkner kniha Absalom, Absalom!

Zdroj: Absalom, Absalom!

“The young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat.”

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Varianta: the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat

“You men,' she says. 'You durn men.”

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“Man must have light. He must live in the fierce full constant glare of light, where all shadow will be defined and sharp and unique and personal: the shadow of his own singular rectitude or baseness. All human evils have to come out of obscurity and darkness, where there is nothing to dog man constantly with the shape of his own deformity.”

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William Faulkner kniha The Mansion

Gavin Stevens in Ch. 6
The Mansion (1959)

“Art is not concerned with environment either; it doesn't care where it is … the best job that was ever offered to me was to become a landlord in a brothel. In my opinion it’s the perfect milieu for an artist to work in.”

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William Faulkner

Paris Review interview (1958)