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Уильям Катберт Фолкнер — американский писатель, прозаик, лауреат Нобелевской премии по литературе . Wikipedia  

✵ 25. Сентябрь 1897 – 6. Июль 1962
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Уильям Фолкнер цитата: „Жизнь — это не имущество, которое надо защищать, а дар, который нужно разделить с другими людьми.“

Уильям Фолкнер Цитаты о зле

Уильям Фолкнер цитата: „Плати за зло чистосердечием, а за добро плати добром.“

Уильям Фолкнер цитаты

Уильям Фолкнер цитата: „Прошлое не мертво. Оно даже не прошлое.“
Уильям Фолкнер цитата: „Любят не за достоинства, а вопреки недостаткам.“
Уильям Фолкнер цитата: „Бояться — это значит знать, что живёшь, а делать то, что боишься сделать, это и есть жизнь.“
Уильям Фолкнер цитата: „Человеческий характер — это единственная тема, которая не устаревает.“
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Уильям Фолкнер: Цитаты на английском языке

“We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.”

Источник: Essays, Speeches & Public Letters

“Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”

Paris Review interview (1958)
Контексте: Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.

“The past is never dead. It's not even past.”

William Faulkner книга Requiem for a Nun

Act 1, sc. 3; this has sometimes been paraphrased or misquoted as "The past isn't over. It isn't even past."
Источник: Requiem for a Nun (1951)

“Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.”

William Faulkner книга If I Forget Thee

Источник: The Wild Palms

“Wonder. Go on and wonder.”

William Faulkner книга The Sound and the Fury

Источник: The Sound and the Fury

“People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.”

William Faulkner книга As I Lay Dying

Источник: As I Lay Dying (1930)

“That's a very good way to learn the craft of writing — from reading.”

Faulkner in the University, p. 117
Faulkner in the University (1959)

“Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.”

William Faulkner книга Mosquitoes

Источник: Mosquitoes

“I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.”

William Faulkner книга As I Lay Dying

Источник: As I Lay Dying

“No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only. Whatever its symbol — cross or crescent or whatever — that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.”

Paris Review interview (1958)
Контексте: No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only. Whatever its symbol — cross or crescent or whatever — that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race. Its various allegories are the charts against which he measures himself and learns to know what he is. It cannot teach a man to be good as the textbook teaches him mathematics. It shows him how to discover himself, evolve for himself a moral codes and standard within his capacities and aspirations, by giving him a matchless example of suffering and sacrifice and the promise of hope.

“If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green.”

A statement regarding the Emmett Till murder.
Paris Review interview (1958)
Контексте: If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green. Maybe the purpose of this sorry and tragic error committed in my native Mississippi by two white adults on an afflicted Negro child is to prove to us whether or not we deserve to survive. Because if we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.

“There were many things I could do for two or three days and earn enough money to live on for the rest of the month. By temperament I’m a vagabond and a tramp.”

Paris Review interview (1958)
Контексте: There were many things I could do for two or three days and earn enough money to live on for the rest of the month. By temperament I’m a vagabond and a tramp. I don’t want money badly enough to work for it. In my opinion it’s a shame that there is so much work in the world. One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours — all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

“When grown people speak of the innocence of children, they dont really know what they mean.”

William Faulkner книга The Reivers

The Reivers (1962)
Контексте: When grown people speak of the innocence of children, they dont really know what they mean. Pressed, they will go a step further and say, Well, ignorance then. The child is neither. There is no crime which a boy of eleven had not envisaged long ago. His only innocence is, he may not be old enough to desire the fruits of it, which is not innocence but appetite; his ignorance is, he does not know how to commit it, which is not ignorance but size. But Boon didn't know this. He must seduce me. And he had so little time: only from the time the train left until dark.

“Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut. The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory.”

Paris Review interview (1958)
Контексте: Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut. The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error. The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.

“If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoevsky, all of us.”

Paris Review interview (1958)
Контексте: If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoevsky, all of us. Proof of that is that there are about three candidates for the authorship of Shakespeare's plays. But what is important is Hamlet and A Midsummer Night's Dream, not who wrote them, but that somebody did. The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all written about the same things, and if they had lived one thousand or two thousand years longer, the publishers wouldn’t have needed anyone since.

“Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling "Kilroy was here" on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.”

Paris Review interview (1958)
Контексте: The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling "Kilroy was here" on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.

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