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
The Judge to Robert G. Ingersoll
"Beyond" (1933)
Judge to Mothershed, a suicide
"Beyond" (1933)
“Once a bitch always a bitch, what I say.”
The Sound and the Fury (1929)
Letter to Malcolm Cowley (11 February 1949), quoted in William Faulkner : A Critical Essay (1970) by Martin Jarrett-Kerr, p. 46; also published in Selected Letters of William Faulkner (1978) by Joseph Blotner, p. 286
An answer to a student's question as to why he writes in long sentences during his Writer-in-Residence time at the University of Virginia in 1957-1958. Faulkner in the University, p. 84
Faulkner in the University (1959)
he cried. “Dont you see? This whole land, the whole South, is cursed, and all of us who derive from it, whom it ever suckled, white and black both, lie under the curse? Granted that my people brought the curse onto the land: maybe for that reason their descendants alone can—not resist it, not combat it—maybe just endure and outlast it until the curse is lifted. Then your peoples’ turn will come because we have forfeited ours. But not now. Not yet. Dont you see?”
The Bear section 4 (p. 266)
Go Down, Moses (1942)
Charlotte Rittenmeyer to Harry Wilbourne, in (Ch. 7) "Wild Palms"; p. 218
The Wild Palms [If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem] (1939)
Harry Wilbourne to Charlotte Rittenmeyer, in (Ch. 3) "Wild Palms"; p. 48
The Wild Palms [If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem] (1939)
“Now I want you to tell me just one thing more. Why do you hate the South?”
"I dont hate it," Quentin said, quickly, at once, immediately; "I dont hate it," he said. I dont hate it he thought, panting in the cold air, the iron New England dark: I dont. I dont! I dont hate it! I dont hate it!
last lines (Chapter 9)
Absalom, Absalom! (1936)
“Why that’s a hundred miles away. That’s a long way to go just to eat.”
On declining invitation to White House dinner honoring Nobel laureates, as quoted in Life magazine (20 January 1962)