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.”

“Caddy got the box and set it on the floor and opened it. It was full of stars. When I was still, they were still. When I moved, they glinted and sparkled. I hushed.”

“Memory believes before knowing remembers.”

“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.”

“You can't. You just have to.”

“I'd have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.”

“How do our lives ravel out
into the no-wind, no-sound,
the weary gestures wearily recapitulant:
echoes of old compulsions with no-hand on no-string:
in sunset we fall into furious attitudes,
dead gestures of dolls.”

“The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.”

“And sure enough, even waiting will end… if you can just wait long enough.”

“You intend to kiss me and yet you are going to all this damn trouble about it.”

“Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.”

“I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.”

“It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot along behind him with a paper and pencil trying to keep up long enough to put down what he says and does.”

“The reason you will not say it is, when you say it, even to yourself, you will know it is true.”

“Everything in Los Angeles is too large, too loud and usually banal in concept… The plastic asshole of the world.”

“We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.”

“And I will look down and see my murmuring bones and the deep water like wind, like a roof of wind, and after a long time they cannot distinguish even bones upon the lonely and inviolate sand.”

“Dear God, let me be damned a little longer, a little while.”

“You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.”

“Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.”

“It's all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won't be over until tomorrow.”

“I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.”

“Love doesn't die; the men and women do.”

“Between grief and nothing, I will take grief.”

“He was looking at her from behind the smiling that wasn't smiling but was something you were not supposed to see beyond.”

“Caddy smelled like trees.”

“This does not matter. This is not anything yet. It all depends on what you do with it, afterward.”

“Henry James was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met.”

“A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.”

“It's terrible to be young. It's terrible. Terrible”