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„Haben Sie niemals Angst, Ihre Stimme für Ehrlichkeit und Wahrhaftigkeit und Mitgefühl gegen Ungerechtigkeit und Lüge und Gier zu erheben. Wenn Menschen auf der ganzen Welt dies tun würden, würde dies die Erde verändern.“

William Faulkner

„Wenn ich die Wahl habe zwischen dem Nichts und dem Schmerz, dann wähle ich den Schmerz.“

William Faulkner

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„Vielleicht hatten sie recht damit, Liebe in Bücher zu stecken. Vielleicht könnte sie nirgendwo sonst leben.“

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„Beim Schreiben musst Du alle Deine Lieblinge töten.“

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„Ich bin schlecht und ich werde in die Hölle, und es ist mir egal. Ich wäre lieber in der Hölle, als irgendwo, wo du bist.“

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„Es ist, als ob es nicht so sehr darum geht, was ein Kerl tut, sondern die Art und Weise, wie die meisten Leute ihm zusehen, wenn er es tut.“

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William Faulkner Zitate und Sprüche

„Aber mit der Zeit wirst du alt, dann siehst du den Tod. Dann begreifst du, daß nichts – nichts – nicht Macht noch Ruhm, Reichtum, Genuß oder Schmerzlosigkeit soviel wert sind wie die einfache Fähigkeit zu atmen, wie das einfache Am-Leben-sein – bei aller Qual des Sich-erinnern-müssens und allem Leid durch den unwiederherstellbaren, vernutzten Körper; nur zu wissen, daß man am Leben ist…“

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Eine Legende. Aus dem Amerikanischen übersetzt von Kurt Heinrich Hansen (1913-1987). Berlin: Verlag Volk und Welt, 1963. S. 431
Original englisch: "In time you become old, you see death then. Then you realise that nothing - nothing - nothing - not power nor glory nor wealth nor pleasure nor even freedom from pain, is as valuable as simple breathing, simply being alive even with all the regret of having to remember and the anguish of an irreparable worn-out body; merely knowing that you are alive-" - A Fable (1954)

„Es gab einmal – Merken Sie, wie sich, von der Sonne an dieser Wand hervorgepresst, der Duft der Glyzinie herauslöst und (vom Licht ungehindert) wie in einer heimlichen Weiterleitung von Teilchen zu Teilchen der Myriaden von Elementen der Dunkelheit dieses Zimmer durchdringt? Das ist die Substanz der Erinnerung – Gefühl, Gesicht, Geruch: die Muskeln, mit denen wir sehen, hören und fühlen – nicht Bewusstsein, nicht Denken: So etwas wie Gedächtnis gibt es nicht: Das Gehirn entsinnt sich nur dessen, wonach die Muskeln greifen: nicht mehr, nicht weniger: Und was dabei herauskommt, ist normalerweise ungenau und falsch und verdient nur die Bezeichnung Traum.“

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Absalom, Absalom!

„Mach dir nicht die Mühe besser zu sein als deine
Zeitgenossen oder deine Vorfahren. Versuch nur besser zu sein als du selbst.“

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„Das Vergangene ist nicht tot; es ist nicht einmal vergangen.“

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"Requiem für eine Nonne" (1951), 1. Akt, 3. Szene (Rolle: Gavin Stevens), taz.de http://www.taz.de/pt/2005/09/03/a0049.1/text.ges,1; erster Satz des Romans Kindheitsmuster (1976) von Christa Wolf (ohne Hinweis auf Faulkner) <br class="br">Original engl.: "The past is never dead. It's not even past." -Requiem for a Nun

„Wenn Sie sich nicht ab und zu schämen, sind Sie nicht ehrlich.“

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„Wenn Sie das nächste Mal versuchen, jemanden zu verführen, tun Sie es nicht mit Worten. Frauen wissen mehr über Worte als Männer jemals. Und sie wissen, wie wenig sie jemals bedeuten können.“

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„Die Dinge, auf die es im Leben wirklich ankommt, kann man nicht kaufen.“

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„Man wird geboren, und man versucht dies und das, und man weiß nicht, warum nur man selbst es weiter versucht, und man wird gleichzeitig mit vielen anderen Menschen geboren, lässt sich mit ihnen ein, als versuchte man seine Arme und Beine mit Fäden zu bewegen, als müsste man das, nur dass dieselben Fäden auch an allen anderen Armen und Beinen befestigt sind und die anderen es auch alle versuchen und genauso wenig wissen, warum, außer dass die Fäden sich verheddern, als versuchten fünf, sechs Leute gleichzeitig, auf demselben Webstuhl einen Teppich zu weben, nur will jeder sein eigenes Muster in den Teppich einweben; und es kann keinen Sinn haben, das weiß man, sonst hätten diejenigen, die den Webstuhl aufgestellt haben, alles ein bisschen besser eingerichtet, und doch muss es einen Sinn haben, weil man es immer wieder versucht oder versuchen muss […]“

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„Mancher wird erst mutig, wenn er keinen anderen Ausweg mehr sieht.“

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„Sie können nicht für neue Horizonte schwimmen, bis Sie den Mut haben, das Ufer aus den Augen zu verlieren.“

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„Wir müssen frei sein, nicht weil wir Freiheit beanspruchen, sondern weil wir es praktizieren.“

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„Es ist schrecklich, jung zu sein. Es ist schrecklich. Furchtbar.“

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„Und natürlich hört auch das Warten auf ... wenn Sie nur lange genug warten können.“

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„Ich bin mit zwanzig Jahren älter als viele Menschen, die gestorben sind.“

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„Es gibt kein was.“

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„Ein Gentleman kann alles durchleben.“

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„Es gibt nicht "was war" - nur "was ist". Wenn "war" existieren würde, würde es weder Trauer noch Leid geben.“

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„Ich fühle mich wie ein nasser Samen, der in der heißen blinden Erde wild ist.“

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„Sei kein Schriftsteller. Sei ein Schreiberling.“

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William Faulkner: Zitate auf Englisch

“…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 buch 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 buch The Town

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

“A gentleman can live through anything.”

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William Faulkner buch 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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Gavin Stevens in Ch. 5
The Town (1957)

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

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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 buch The Mansion

Quelle: 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 buch 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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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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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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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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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 buch 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 buch 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 buch 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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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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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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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 buch 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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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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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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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)