Quentin Compson quotes
A character in Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
4 quotes spoken by or about Quentin Compson, each verified verbatim against the text and located in the book.
Absalom, Absalom!
William Faulkner
About William Faulkner
From a little after two oclock until almost sundown of the long still hot weary dead September afternoon they sat in what Miss Coldfield still called the office because her father had called it that
the Quentin Compson preparing for Harvard in the South, the deep South dead since 1865 and peopled with garrulous outraged baffled ghosts
he was not a being, an entity, he was a commonwealth.
I dont hate it
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