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Quotes from As I Lay Dying — William Faulkner

1897–1962 United States

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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.

As I Lay Dying (1930)

How often have Ι lain beneath rain on a strange roof thinking of home.

As I Lay Dying (1930)

I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.

As I Lay Dying (1930)

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

As I Lay Dying (1930)

Sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forget the words.

As I Lay Dying (1930)

Darl is our brother, our brother Darl. Our brother Darl in a cage in Jackson where, his grimed hands lying lightly in the quiet interstices, looking out he foams.

As I Lay Dying (1930)

Life was created in the valleys. It blew up onto the hills on the old terrors, the old lusts, the old despairs. That's why you must walk up the hills so you can ride down.

As I Lay Dying (1930)

Sometimes I think it ain’t none of us pure crazy and ain’t none of us pure sane until the balance of us talks him that-a-way. It’s like it ain’t so much what a fellow does, but it’s the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it.

As I Lay Dying (1930)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: William Faulkner (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.