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The Sound and the Fury quotes

7 quotes from The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner, each verified verbatim against the text and located in the book.

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Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting.
Benjy (narration) · William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury (1929), opening sentence
Caddy smelled like trees.
Benjy (narration) · William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury (1929)
I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it.
Quentin (narration), recalling his father · William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury (1929)
Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought.
Quentin (narration), recalling his father · William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury (1929)
Once a bitch always a bitch, what I say.
Jason (narration) · William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury (1929)
I seed de beginnin, en now I sees de endin.
Dilsey (dialogue) · William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury (1929)
The broken flower drooped over Ben's fist and his eyes were empty and blue and serene again as cornice and façade flowed smoothly once more from left to right; post and tree, window and doorway, and signboard, each in its ordered place.
The narrator · William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury (1929), last sentence

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