William Faulkner Frases famosas
Citações de mundo de William Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury
The Sound and the Fury
As I Lay Dying
Sanctuary
“É preciso duas pessoas para fazer alguém, e uma para morrer. É assim que o mundo vai acabar.”
As I Lay Dying
Variante: é preciso duas pessoas para fazer alguém, e uma para morrer. é assim que o mundo vai acabar.
William Faulkner frases e citações
“Ele supunha que era à solidão que tentava escapar, e não a si mesmo.”
He thought that it was loneliness which he was trying to escape and not himself.
"Light in August: the corrected text" - Página 226, William Faulkner - Vintage Books, 1985, ISBN 0679732268, 9780679732266 - 512 páginas
“Inteligência é capacidade que se tem de aceitar o que está ao redor.”
Variante: Inteligência é a capacidade de aceitar o que nos rodeia.
The Sound and the Fury
The Sound and the Fury
The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner: Frases em inglês
“She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.”
Fonte: The Sound and the Fury
“Memory believes before knowing remembers.”
Variante: Memory believes before knowing remembers.
[Light in August]
Fonte: As I Lay Dying

“Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.”
Fonte: Light in August
Variante: ... the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.
Fonte: As I Lay Dying
“The reason you will not say it is, when you say it, even to yourself, you will know it is true.”
Fonte: As I Lay Dying
“Dear God, let me be damned a little longer, a little while.”
Fonte: Light in August
Paris Review interview (1958)
Contexto: The two great men in my time were Mann and Joyce. You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.
“Love doesn't die; the men and women do.”
Fonte: The Wild Palms
“Between grief and nothing, I will take grief.”
Variante: Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief
Fonte: The Wild Palms
(Ch. 6) "Old Man"; p. 160
The Wild Palms [If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem] (1939)