William Faulkner híres idézetei
William Faulkner idézetek
William Faulkner: Idézetek angolul
“I say money has no value; it's just the way you spend it.”
William Faulkner könyv The Sound and the Fury
Forrás: The Sound and the Fury
“I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.”
William Faulkner könyv Light in August
Forrás: Light in August
“I am not one of those women who can stand things.”
William Faulkner könyv The Sound and the Fury
Forrás: The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner könyv Light in August
Forrás: Light in August
William Faulkner könyv The Sound and the Fury
Forrás: The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner könyv The Sound and the Fury
Forrás: The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner könyv As I Lay Dying
Forrás: As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner könyv The Sound and the Fury
Forrás: The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner könyv The Sound and the Fury
Forrás: The Sound and the Fury
“I took out my watch and listened to it clicking away, not knowing it couldn't even lie”
William Faulkner könyv The Sound and the Fury
Forrás: The Sound and the Fury
On himself and his contemporaries.
Paris Review interview (1958)
William Faulkner könyv Absalom, Absalom!
The Mansion (1959)
Forrás: Absalom, Absalom!
Kontextus: 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.”
William Faulkner könyv Absalom, Absalom!
Forrás: Absalom, Absalom!
“Even sound seemed to fail in this air, like the air was worn out with carrying sounds so long.”
William Faulkner könyv The Sound and the Fury
Forrás: The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner könyv The Sound and the Fury
Változat: 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.
Forrás: The Sound and the Fury (1929)
