William Faulkner Berühmte Zitate
William Faulkner Zitate und Sprüche
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)
Absalom, Absalom!
„Das Vergangene ist nicht tot; es ist nicht einmal vergangen.“
"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
William Faulkner: Zitate auf Englisch
William Faulkner buch Go Down, Moses
The Bear section 4 (p. 247)
Go Down, Moses (1942)
William Faulkner buch Go Down, Moses
The Bear section 3 (p. 229)
Go Down, Moses (1942)
William Faulkner buch Go Down, Moses
The Bear section 1 (p. 195)
Go Down, Moses (1942)
William Faulkner buch Absalom, Absalom!
Absalom, Absalom! (1936)
The Judge to Robert G. Ingersoll
"Beyond" (1933)
Judge to Mothershed, a suicide
"Beyond" (1933)
William Faulkner buch Light in August
Quelle: Light in August (1932), Chapter 2
William Faulkner buch As I Lay Dying
As I Lay Dying (1930)
“Once a bitch always a bitch, what I say.”
William Faulkner buch The Sound and the Fury
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)
William Faulkner buch Go Down, Moses
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)
William Faulkner buch Go Down, Moses
The Bear section 2 (p. 212)
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?”
William Faulkner buch Absalom, Absalom!
"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)
William Faulkner buch Absalom, Absalom!
Absalom, Absalom! (1936)
William Faulkner buch Light in August
Gail Hightower's thoughts in Chapter 20
Light in August (1932)
William Faulkner buch Light in August
Quelle: Light in August (1932), Chapter 4
William Faulkner buch As I Lay Dying
As I Lay Dying (1930)
William Faulkner buch As I Lay Dying
As I Lay Dying (1930)
William Faulkner buch The Sound and the Fury
The Sound and the Fury (1929)
William Faulkner buch The Sound and the Fury
Jason to Caddy
The Sound and the Fury (1929)
“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)
