William Faulkner citáty

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Zdroj: [Perkins, George B., The theory of the American novel, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970, 356, angličtina]

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]

The Bear section 3 (p. 229)
Go Down, Moses (1942)

The Bear section 1 (p. 195)
Go Down, Moses (1942)

Absalom, Absalom! (1936)

"Beyond" (1933)

The Judge to Robert G. Ingersoll
"Beyond" (1933)

Judge to Mothershed, a suicide
"Beyond" (1933)

Zdroj: Light in August (1932), Chapter 2

As I Lay Dying (1930)

As I Lay Dying (1930)

The Sound and the Fury (1929)

Letter to Malcolm Cowley (11 February 1949), quoted in William Faulkner : A Critical Essay (1970) by Martin Jarrett-Kerr, p. 46; also published in Selected Letters of William Faulkner (1978) by Joseph Blotner, p. 286

An answer to a student's question as to why he writes in long sentences during his Writer-in-Residence time at the University of Virginia in 1957-1958. Faulkner in the University, p. 84
Faulkner in the University (1959)

he cried. “Dont you see? This whole land, the whole South, is cursed, and all of us who derive from it, whom it ever suckled, white and black both, lie under the curse? Granted that my people brought the curse onto the land: maybe for that reason their descendants alone can—not resist it, not combat it—maybe just endure and outlast it until the curse is lifted. Then your peoples’ turn will come because we have forfeited ours. But not now. Not yet. Dont you see?”

The Bear section 4 (p. 266)
Go Down, Moses (1942)

The Bear section 2 (p. 212)
Go Down, Moses (1942)

Charlotte Rittenmeyer to Harry Wilbourne, in (Ch. 7) "Wild Palms"; p. 218
The Wild Palms [If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem] (1939)

Harry Wilbourne to Charlotte Rittenmeyer, in (Ch. 3) "Wild Palms"; p. 48
The Wild Palms [If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem] (1939)

"I dont hate it," Quentin said, quickly, at once, immediately; "I dont hate it," he said. 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!

last lines (Chapter 9)
Absalom, Absalom! (1936)

Absalom, Absalom! (1936)

The Judge
"Beyond" (1933)

Gail Hightower's thoughts in Chapter 20
Light in August (1932)

Zdroj: Light in August (1932), Chapter 4

"Mistral" (1931)

As I Lay Dying (1930)

As I Lay Dying (1930)

As I Lay Dying (1930)

As I Lay Dying (1930)

The Sound and the Fury (1929)

Jason to Caddy
The Sound and the Fury (1929)

On declining invitation to White House dinner honoring Nobel laureates, as quoted in Life magazine (20 January 1962)