William Faulkner idézet

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„Ha legközelebb bárkit is megpróbálsz elcsábítani, ne beszélgetéssel, se szavakkal tedd. A nők többet tudnak a szavakról, mint a férfiak valaha is fognak. És tudják, milyen keveset tudnak jelenteni.”

„Soha ne félj felemelni a hangod az őszinteségért, az igazságért és az együttérzésért az igazságtalanság, a hazugság és a kapzsiság ellen. Ha az emberek a világ minden tájáról megtennék ezt, megváltoztatnák a földet.”

„Mindig álmodozz és lőj magasabbra, mint ahogy tudnál. Ne fáradj csak azért, hogy jobb légy, mint kortársaid vagy elődeid. Próbálj jobb lenni magadnál.”

„Nem úszhat új távlatokba, amíg nincs bátorsága elveszíteni szem elől a partot.”

„Szabadnak kell lennünk. Nem azért, mert szabadságot követelünk, hanem azért, mert azt gyakoroljuk.”

„Talán igazuk volt, amikor a szerelmet könyvekbe foglalták. Talán nem is tudna máshol élni.”

„Úgy érzem magam, mint egy nedves mag vadon a forró, sötét földben.”

„Az írásban minden kedvesedet meg kell ölnöd.”

„Ne légy 'író'. Légy írás.”

„Hányszor feküdtem már az esőben egy idegen tetőn, és gondoltam az otthonomra.”

„Mintha nem is annyira az számítana, hogy mit csinál egy fickó, hanem az, hogy az emberek többsége hogyan néz rá, amikor csinálja.”

“Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.”

“If a story is in you, it has to come out.”

“Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.”

“She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love. Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.”

“You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.”

“You can't beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don't even try to.”

“Pouring out liquor is like burning books.”

“It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.”

“My mother is a fish.”

“Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest”

“It's not when you realise that nothing can help you - religion, pride, anything - it's when you realise that you don't need any aid.”

“Most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be.”

“Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar…”

“A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune”

“It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That's how the world is going to end.”

“A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.”

“A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.”

“The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.”

“War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.”

“A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….”

“The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself”

“The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.”

“If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.”

“There is no was.”

“The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”

“It is the writer's privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart.”

“I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.”

“A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.”

“Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything good.”