William Faulkner: Frasi in inglese
William Faulkner era scrittore, sceneggiatore e poeta statunitense. Frasi in inglese.“We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.”
Origine: Essays, Speeches & Public Letters
William Faulkner libro As I Lay Dying
Origine: As I Lay Dying
Paris Review interview (1958)
Contesto: 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 libro 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."
Origine: Requiem for a Nun (1951)
“Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.”
William Faulkner libro If I Forget Thee
Origine: The Wild Palms
William Faulkner libro L'urlo e il furore
Origine: The Sound and the Fury
“People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.”
William Faulkner libro As I Lay Dying
Origine: As I Lay Dying (1930)
William Faulkner libro L'urlo e il furore
Origine: The Sound and the Fury (1929)
“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 libro Mosquitoes
Origine: Mosquitoes