“Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one.”
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“The old woman was the kind who would not cut down a large old tree because it was a large old tree.”
― The Complete Stories
― The Complete Stories
“The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.”
― The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
― The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
“...I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...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 of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.”
― The Sound and the Fury
― The Sound and the Fury
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