Quotes from William Faulkner

El que fa la literatura és el mayeix que un llumí enmig d'un camp en plena nit. Un llumí amb prou feines il·lumina, però ens permet veure quanta foscor hi ha al voltant.

El hombre es la suma de sus experiencias climáticas, decía padre. El hombre es la suma de lo que tiene. Un problema acerca de propiedades impuras que se arrastran tediosamente hacia una invariable nada: un jaque mate de polvo y deseo.

In my time I have seen truth that was anything under the sun but just, and I have seen justice using tools and instruments I wouldn't want to touch with a ten-foot fence rail.

Só que nossa terra não era como esta. Só de caminhar por ela a gente sentia uma coisa. Uma espécie de fecundidade tranquila e violenta que satisfazia até a fome de pão quase.

When [God] aims for something to be always a-moving, He makes it longways, like a road or a horse or a wagon, but when He aims for something to stay put, He makes it up-and-down ways, like a tree or a man. . . . [I]f He'd a aimed for man to be always a-moving and going somewheres else, wouldn't He a put him longways on his belly, like a snake? It stands to reason He would. Anse in As I Lay Dying, pp. 34-5

Los hombres no son más que muñecos rellenos de aserrín recogido en los montones de basura donde todos los muñecos anteriores había sido tirados.

Babam bir insan kendi talihsizliklerinin toplam?d?r derdi. Bir gün gelir talihsizlik de yorulur san?rs?n sen ama zaten senin talihsizliÄŸin zaman?n kendisi olur derdi babam.

Los hombres no son más que muñecos rellenos de aserrín recogido en los montones de basura donde todos los muñecos anteriores habían sido tirados.

In a strange room you must empty yourself for sleep. And before you are emptied for sleep, what are you. And when you are emptied for sleep, you are not. And when you are filled with sleep, you never were. I don't know what I am. I don't know if I am or not.

It beats all how some folks think that making or getting money is a kind of game where there are not any rules at all.

É preciso duas pessoas para fazer alguém, e uma para morrer. É assim que o mundo vai acabar.

For the Lord aimed for him to do and not to spend too much time thinking, because his brain it's like a piece of machinery: it won't stand a whole lot of racking. It's best when it all runs along the same, doing the day's work and not no one part used no more than needful.

each in its order place

each in its ordered place

Siempre son los hombres que no sirven para nada los que te dicen cómo debes hacer las cosas. Son como esos profesores de Universidad que no tienen ni un par de calcetines propios y te dicen cómo puedes hacerte millonario en poco tiempo, o esas mujeres que nunca consiguieron atrapar marido y te dicen cómo se debe educar a los hijos.

Wasn't it just one before?' the old porter said. 'Wasn't one enough then to tell us the same thing all them two thousand years ago:

A veces, durante cierto tiempo, pierdo por completo la fe en la naturaleza humana; me asalta la duda. Pero Dios Nuestro Señor siempre acaba por devolverme la fe y mostrarme su bondadoso amor a las criaturas.

I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it to be merely a function of the mind--and that of the minds of the ones who suffer the bereavement. The nihilists say it is the end; the fundamentalists, the beginning; when in reality it is no more than a single tenant or family moving out of a tenement or a town.

e ele você queria sublimar uma bobagem humana natural transformando-a num horror e então exorcizá-la com a verdade e eu foi para isolá-la do mundo barulhento para que o mundo fosse obrigado a fugir de nós e então seria como se o som dele nunca tivesse existido

YaÅŸayan herhangi bir insan herhangi ölü bir insandan iyidir ama yaÅŸayan ya da ölü hiçbir insan baÅŸka bir yaÅŸayan ya da ölü insandan çok daha iyi deÄŸildir.

Hasta me acuerdo de cómo, cuando yo era joven, creía que la muerte era un fenómeno del cuerpo; sin embargo, ahora sé que no es más que una función de la mente: una función de las mentes de quienes sufren la pérdida. Los nihilistas dicen que la muerte es el final; los funcionalistas, que el comienzo; pero en realidad no es más que un simple inquilino o familia que deja su habitación o su ciudad.

Keep it amateur. You're not writing for money but for pleasure. It should be fun. And it should be exciting. Maybe not as you write, but after it's done you should feel an excitement, a passion. That doesn't mean feeling proud, sitting there gloating over what you've done. It means you know you've done your best. Next time it's going to be better.

In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior; in America, it's an excuse for a form of behavior.

So you believe in the rightness of man? I said. I will beat the heads off yez all for a shilling, Comyn said. I believe in the pitiableness of man, the subadar said. That is better.