Frases de William Faulkner (249 citações, página 6)

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

“A sabedoria suprema é ter sonhos bastante grandes para não se perderem de vista enquanto os perseguimos.”

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“O escritor tem uma incapacidade congénita para contar a verdade e é por isso que escreve ficção.”

William Faulkner

“Sou um poeta frustrado. Talvez o desejo de todos os romancistas seja ser poeta.”

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“Inteligência é capacidade que se tem de aceitar o que está ao redor.”

William Faulkner

Variante: Inteligência é a capacidade de aceitar o que nos rodeia.

“Para ser grande é preciso ter 99 por cento de talento, 99 por cento de disciplina e 99 por cento de trabalho.”

William Faulkner

“O mais triste é que a única coisa que se pode fazer durante oito horas por dia é trabalhar.”

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“Pode confiar-se nas pessoas más: nunca mudarão.”

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“O romancista nunca é tão bom como poderia ter sido.”

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“Não sei o que penso sobre alguma coisa até ter lido o que escrevi.”

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“O que se considera cegueira do destino é, na realidade, miopia própria.”

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“Uma paisagem conquista-se com as solas dos sapatos, não com as rodas de um automóvel.”

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“Um escritor é alguém congenitamente incapaz de dizer a verdade. Por isso, o que ele escreve chama-se ficção.”

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“Era o relógio de meu avô, e quando o ganhei de meu pai ele disse Estou lhe dando o mausoléu de toda esperança e todo desejo; é extremamente provável que você o use para lograr o reducto ad absurdum de toda experiência humana, que será tão pouco adaptado às suas necessidades individuais quanto foi às dele e às do pai dele. Dou-lhe este relógio não para que você se lembre do tempo, mas para que você possa esquecê-lo por um momento de vez em quando e não gaste todo seu fôlego tentando conquistá-lo. Porque jamais se ganha batalha alguma, ele disse. Nenhuma batalha sequer é lutada. O campo revela ao homem apenas sua própria loucura e desespero, e a vitória é uma ilusão de filósofos e néscios.”

William Faulkner livro The Sound and the Fury

The Sound and the Fury

“Ou talvez quando se aceita alguma coisa, ela deixa realmente de importar, quer a gente queira quer não.”

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“Só que nossa terra não era como esta. Só de caminhar por ela a gente sentia uma coisa. Uma espécie de fecundidade tranquila e violenta que satisfazia até a fome de pão quase.”

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O Som e a Fúria

“é difícil acreditar que um amor ou uma dor é uma debênture comprada sem intenção e que vence querendo ou não e é recolhida sem aviso prévio para ser substituída pelo título que os deuses resolverem emitir no momento não você só vai fazer isso quando acreditar que nem mesmo ela era merecedora do desespero talvez”

William Faulkner livro The Sound and the Fury

The Sound and the Fury

“O dia corria célere sobre suas cabeças, e as janelas esquálidas brilhavam e escurecia numa retrocessão espectral. Passou um carro, pela pista de areia lá fora, rosnando de esforço, e o som foi morrendo. Dilsey estava empertigada em seu banco, a mão pousada no joelho de Ben. Duas lágrimas desciam-lhe as faces murchas, entrando e saindo dasmil coruscações da imolação e da abnegação do tempo.”

William Faulkner livro The Sound and the Fury

The Sound and the Fury

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“Isso não importa. Isso ainda não é nada. Tudo depende do que você faz com isso depois.”

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“Agora eu sei que o que faz um tolo é a incapacidade de seguir seus bons conselhos.”

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“Eu não sou uma daquelas mulheres que aguentam as coisas.”

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“Você não pode. Você só deve.”

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William Faulkner: Frases em inglês

“…innocence is innocent not because it rejects but because it accepts; is innocent not because it is impervious and invulnerable to everything, but because it is capable of accepting anything and still remaining innocent; innocent because it foreknows all and therefore doesn't have to fear or be afraid.”

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William Faulkner livro The Town

Gavin Stevens in Ch. 15
The Town (1957)

“…between what did happen and what ought to happened, I dont never have trouble picking ought.”

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William Faulkner livro The Town

V. K. Ratliff in Ch. 6
The Town (1957)

“A gentleman can live through anything.”

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William Faulkner livro The Reivers

The Reivers (1962)

“The poets are wrong of course. … But then poets are almost always wrong about facts. That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth: which is why the truth they speak is so true that even those who hate poets by simple and natural instinct are exalted and terrified by it.”

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William Faulkner livro The Town

Gavin Stevens in Ch. 5
The Town (1957)

“Don Quixote — I read that every year, as some do the Bible.”

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William Faulkner

Paris Review interview (1958)

“…Stevens himself hating horses even more than dogs, rating the horse an unassailable first in loathing since though both were parasites, the dog at least had the grace to be a sycophant too; it at least fawned on you and so kept you healthily ashamed of the human race. But the real reason was, though neither the horse nor the dog ever forgot anything, the dog at least forgave you; and his, Stevens's, thought was that what the world needed was more forgiving.”

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William Faulkner livro The Mansion

Fonte: The Mansion (1959), Ch. 16

“The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. It anguishes him so much that he can't get rid of it. He has no peace until then. Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written. If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the “Ode on a Grecian Urn” is worth any number of old ladies.”

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William Faulkner

Paris Review interview (1958)

“…women are not interested in truth or romance but only in facts whether they are true or not, just so they fit all the other facts.”

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William Faulkner livro The Town

Gavin Stevens in Ch. 17; also in this chapter Gavin Stevens reflects — twice — that men are "interested in facts too".
The Town (1957)

“…even in the folly of youth we know that nothing lasts, but … even in that folly we are afraid that maybe Nothing will last, that maybe Nothing will last forever, and anything is better than Nothing.… So now, as another poet sings, That Fancy passed me by And nothing will remain; which, praise the gods, is a damned lie since, praise, O gods! Nothing cannot remain anywhere since nothing is vacuum and vacuum is paradox and unbearable and we will have nothing of it even if we would, the damned-fool poet's Nothing.”

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William Faulkner livro The Town

Gavin Stevens in Ch. 8
The two lines quoted — not altogether accurately — are from A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad (1896), XVIII:<p>And now the fancy passes by
And nothing will remain.
The Town (1957)

“…women aren't interested in the romance of dreams; they are interested in the reality of facts, they don't care what facts, let alone whether they are true or not if they just dovetail with all the other facts without leaving a saw-tooth edge.”

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William Faulkner livro The Town

Gavin Stevens paraphrasing Eula Varner Snopes in Ch. 15
The Town (1957)

“My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.”

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William Faulkner

Paris Review interview (1958)

“People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can’t know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do — after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world’s anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.”

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William Faulkner

Paris Review interview (1958)

“"You don't know very much about women, do you?" she said. "Women aren't interested in poets' dreams. They are interested in facts. It doesn't even matter whether the facts are true or not, as long as they match the other facts without leaving a rough seam."”

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William Faulkner livro The Town

Eula Varner Snopes to Gavin Stevens in Ch. 15
The Town (1957)

“Maybe I was completely wrong that morning when I said how women are only interested in facts because maybe men are just interested in facts too and the only difference is, women dont care whether they are facts or not just so they fit, and men dont care whether they fit or not just so they are facts.”

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William Faulkner livro The Town

Eula Varner Snopes to Gavin Stevens in Ch. 20
The Town (1957)

“At least wasn't nobody, no outsider, there to hear it so maybe even before next January he was able to believe hadn't none of it even been said, like miracle: what aint believed aint seen. Miracle, pure miracle anyhow, how little a man needs to outlast jest [just] about anything.”

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William Faulkner livro The Mansion

V. K. Ratliff about Gavin Stevens in Ch. 6
The Mansion (1959)

“Because women are marvellous. They stroll perfectly bland and serene through a fact that the men have been bloodying their heads against for years; whereupon you find that the fact not only wasn't important, it wasn't really there.”

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William Faulkner livro The Mansion

Charles Mallinson in Ch. 9
The Mansion (1959)

“… maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly all the time, is having to accept it.”

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William Faulkner livro Requiem for a Nun

Act 2, sc. 1 http://books.google.com/books?id=EBMFAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Maybe+the+only+thing+worse+than+having+to+give+gratitude+constantly%22+%22is+having+to+accept+it%22&pg=PA155#v=onepage <br class="br">Requiem for a Nun (1951)

“…girls, women, are not interested in romance but only facts.”

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William Faulkner livro The Town

Gavin Stevens to Eula Varner Snopes in Ch. 20
The Town (1957)

“… so vast, so limitless in capacity is man's imagination to disperse and burn away the rubble-dross of fact and probability, leaving only truth and dream.”

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William Faulkner livro Requiem for a Nun

Last paragraph, Act 3, The Jail (Nor even yet quite relinquish —)
Requiem for a Nun (1951)

“Because as a rule women dont really care about facts just so they fit; it's just men that dont give a damn whether they fit or not.”

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William Faulkner livro The Town

Gavin Stevens to V. K. Ratliff in Ch. 24
The Town (1957)

“I’m a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry ﬁrst, ﬁnds he can’t, and then tries the short story, which is the most demanding form after poetry. And, failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.”

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William Faulkner

Paris Review interview (1958)

“…life is not so much motion as an inventless repetition of motion.”

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William Faulkner livro The Mansion

Charles Mallinson in Ch. 8
The Mansion (1959)

“If I were reincarnated, I’d want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything.”

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William Faulkner

Paris Review interview (1958)

“She wanted to tell me. Maybe she even tried. But she couldn't. It wasn't because I was only twelve. It was because I was her child, created by her and Father because they wanted to be in bed together and nothing else would do, nobody else would do. You see? … Because to the child, he was not created by his mother's and his father's passion or capacity for it. He couldn't have been because he was there first, he came first, before the passion; he created the passion, not only it but the man and the woman who served it; his father is not his father but his son-in-law, his mother not his mother but his daughter-in-law if he is a girl. … and if a boy or a girl really is his father's and her mother's father-in-law or mother-in-law, which would make the girl her brother's mother no matter how much younger she was, then a girl with just one brother and him a twin at that, would maybe be his wife and mother too.”

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William Faulkner livro The Town

Charles Mallinson in Ch. 19; Charles Mallinson's mother, Maggie, and his uncle, Gavin Stevens, besides being their parents' only children, are twins.
The Town (1957)

“Then me too in Paris for the last two weeks, to see if the Paris of Hemingway and the Paris of Scott Fitzgerald (they were not the same ones; they merely used the same room) had vanished completely or not too.”

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William Faulkner livro The Mansion

Charles Mallinson in Ch. 9. The date is summer 1938.
The Mansion (1959)

“Life is motion, and motion is concerned with what makes man move — which is ambition, power, pleasure. What time a man can devote to morality, he must take by force from the motion of which he is a part. He is compelled to make choices between good and evil sooner or later, because moral conscience demands that from him in order that he can live with himself tomorrow. His moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.”

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William Faulkner

Paris Review interview (1958)

“He must learn them again. He must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid: and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop for anything but the old verities and truths of the heart, the universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed — love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice. Until he does so, he labors under a curse. He writes not of love but of lust, of defeats in which nobody loses anything of value, of victories without hope and, worst of all, without pity or compassion. His griefs grieve on no universal bones, leaving no scars. He writes not of the heart but of the glands.”

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William Faulkner

Nobel Prize acceptance speech (1950)