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.”

“She was the captain of her soul”

“History is not was, it is.”

“I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.”

“I am not one of those women who can stand things.”

“And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.”

“It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret. Father said that. That Christ was not crucified: he was worn away by a minute clicking of little wheels. That had no sister.”

“War is an episode, a crisis, a fever the purpose of which is to rid the body of fever. So the purpose of a war is to end the war.”

“To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.”

“I suppose that people, using themselves and each other so much by words, are at least consistent in attributing wisdom to a still tongue…”

“The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies.”

“My, my. A body does get around.”

“If you could just ravel out into time. That would be nice. It would be nice if you could just ravel out into time”

“I am trying to say it all in one sentence, between one cap and one period.”

“A dream is not a very safe thing to be near… I know; I had one once. It's like a loaded pistol with a hair trigger: if it stays alive long enough, somebody is going to be hurt. But if it's a good dream, it's worth it.”

“Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.”

“They all talked at once, their voices insistent and contradictory and impatient, making of unreality a possibility, then a probability, then an incontrovertible fact, as people will when their desires become words.”

“Civilization begins with distillation”

“She clung to that which had robbed her, as people do.”

“She is like all the rest of them. Whether they are seventeen or fortyseven, when they finally come to surrender completely, it's going to be in words.”

“any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man”

“I took out my watch and listened to it clicking away, not knowing it couldn't even lie”

“I only write when I am inspired. Fortunately I am inspired at 9 o'clock every morning.”

“All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.”

“To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.”

“When I have one martini, I feel bigger, wiser, taller. When I have a second, I feel superlative. When I have more, there's no holding me.”

“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!”

“I am older at twenty than a lot of people who have died.”

“Even sound seemed to fail in this air, like the air was worn out with carrying sounds so long.”

“Because Father said clocks slay time. He said time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.”