William Faulkner najznámejšie citáty
William Faulkner Citáty o ľuďoch
William Faulkner citáty a výroky
„Medzi smútkom a ničím, vyberám si smútok.“
William Faulkner kniha If I Forget Thee
en: Between grief and nothing I will take grief.
The Wild Palms (1939)
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en: 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.
The Sound and the Fury (1929) (Bľabot a Bes)
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„Mnohí sa stanú odvážnymi iba vtedy, keď nemajú iné východisko.“
Varianta: Niektorí sa stanú odvážnymi až vtedy, keď nemajú iné východisko.
en: 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.
The Sound and the Fury (1929) (Bľabot a Bes)
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„Človek len nevydrží; on prevládne… pretože má dušu. Ducha schopného súcitu a obetovania a výdrže.“
William Faulkner kniha A Fable
en: Man will not merely endure; he will prevail... because he has a soul. A spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
A Fable
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William Faulkner: Citáty v angličtine
“I say money has no value; it's just the way you spend it.”
William Faulkner kniha The Sound and the Fury
Zdroj: 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 kniha Light in August
Zdroj: Light in August
“I am not one of those women who can stand things.”
William Faulkner kniha The Sound and the Fury
Zdroj: The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner kniha Light in August
Zdroj: Light in August
William Faulkner kniha The Sound and the Fury
Zdroj: The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner kniha As I Lay Dying
Zdroj: As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner kniha The Sound and the Fury
Zdroj: The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner kniha The Sound and the Fury
Zdroj: 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 kniha The Sound and the Fury
Zdroj: The Sound and the Fury
On himself and his contemporaries.
Paris Review interview (1958)
William Faulkner kniha Absalom, Absalom!
The Mansion (1959)
Zdroj: Absalom, Absalom!
Kontext: 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 kniha Absalom, Absalom!
Zdroj: Absalom, Absalom!
“Even sound seemed to fail in this air, like the air was worn out with carrying sounds so long.”
William Faulkner kniha The Sound and the Fury
Zdroj: The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner kniha The Sound and the Fury
Varianta: 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.
Zdroj: The Sound and the Fury (1929)
