Quotes from Go Down, Moses — William Faulkner
1897–1962 United States
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He will need to be just a little bigger than smart, and a little braver than either.
Go Down, Moses (1942)
You said how on that instant when Ikkemotubbe realised that he could sell the land to Grandfather, it ceased forever to have been his.
Go Down, Moses (1942)
I am beginning to see the first sign of my increasing age: I dont like to know that my orders have been disobeyed, even when I knew when I gave them that they would be.
Go Down, Moses (1942)
He recognised its voice. It was the young hound which even a year ago had had no judgment and which, by the lights of the other hounds anyway, still had none. Maybe that’s what courage is, he thought.
Go Down, Moses (1942)
... leaving as next by seniority Stuart that gallant man born apparently already horsed and sabred and already knowing all there was to know about war except the slogging and brutal stupidity of it...
Go Down, Moses (1942)