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“It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That's how the world is going to end.”

― William Faulkner, from As I Lay Dying

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“Yet the wagon is, because when the wagon is was, Addie Bundren will not be. And Jewel is, so Addie Bundren must be. And then I must be, or I could not empty myself for sleep in a strange room. And so if I am not emptied yet, I am is.

How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.”

― William Faulkner, from As I Lay Dying

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“One day I was talking to Cora. She prayed for me because she believed I was blind to sin, wanting me to kneel and pray too, because people to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.”

― William Faulkner, from As I Lay Dying

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“Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar.”

― William Faulkner, from The Sound and the Fury