William Faulkner słynne cytaty
Absalomie, Absalomie
William Faulkner Cytaty o ludziach
William Faulkner cytaty
Kiedy umieram
Źródło: wyd. Czytelnik, Warszawa 1968, s. 50.
„Zabić można tylko ciało człowieka. Nie można zabić jego głosu.”
Źródło: Melania Sobańska-Bondaruk, Stanisław Bogusław Lenard (oprac.), Wiek XX w źródłach, Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, Warszawa 2002, ISBN 8301127104, s. 244.
Postać: Judith Sutpen
Absalomie, Absalomie
„Może nic nigdy nie zdarza się tylko jeden raz i nic nigdy nie jest ostatecznie skończone.”
Postać: Quentin Compson
Absalomie, Absalomie
Źródło: Kwiaty dla Emilii (ang. A Rose for Emily), tłum. Tadeusz A. Malanowski
„Człowiek jest sumą swoich nieszczęść.”
A man is the sum of his misfortunes. (ang.)
Źródło: Wściekłość i wrzask (ang. The Sound and the Fury, 1929), tłum. Anna Przedpełska-Trzeciakowska
„Trzeba dwojga, żeby zrobić człowieka, starczy jedno, żeby umrzeć. Tak oto świat się skończy.”
It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end. (ang.)
Kiedy umieram
Źródło: wyd. Czytelnik, Warszawa 1968, s. 45.
William Faulkner: Cytaty po angielsku
“I say money has no value; it's just the way you spend it.”
Źródło: The Sound and the Fury
“I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.”
Źródło: Light in August
“I am not one of those women who can stand things.”
Źródło: The Sound and the Fury
“I took out my watch and listened to it clicking away, not knowing it couldn't even lie”
Źródło: The Sound and the Fury
On himself and his contemporaries.
Paris Review interview (1958)
The Mansion (1959)
Źródło: Absalom, Absalom!
Kontekst: 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.”
Źródło: Absalom, Absalom!
“Even sound seemed to fail in this air, like the air was worn out with carrying sounds so long.”
Źródło: The Sound and the Fury
Wariant: 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.
Źródło: The Sound and the Fury (1929)