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