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The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
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"...I give you lot the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give information technology to yous non that you may remember fourth dimension, only that y'all might forget it now and and then for a moment and non spend all of your jiff trying to conquer it. Considering no boxing is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field merely reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools."
― William Faulkner, The Audio and the Fury

"Clocks slay time... time is dead equally long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life."
― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

"Some days in late August at habitation are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar..."
― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

"A man is the sum of his misfortunes. Ane day you'd think misfortune would become tired but then time is your misfortune"
― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

"It'south not when you realise that goose egg tin assist y'all - religion, pride, anything - it's when you realise that you don't demand any aid."
― William Faulkner, The Audio and the Fury

"She loved him non just in spite of but because he himself was incapable of dearest."
― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

"When the shadow of the sash appeared on the curtains it was between seven and eight o' clock and then I was in fourth dimension once more, hearing the watch. It was Gramps's and when Male parent gave information technology to me he said I give you lot the mausoleum of all hope and want; information technology's rather excruciating-ly apt that you will employ it to gain the reducto absurdum of all human being feel which tin can fit your individual needs no better than information technology fitted his or his father's. I give it to you not that you may remember time, only that you might forget it now and so for a moment and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it. Because no boxing is ever won he said. They are not fifty-fifty fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools."
― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

"Caddy got the box and set it on the floor and opened it. It was full of stars. When I was still, they were withal. When I moved, they glinted and sparkled. I hushful."
― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

"I'd take wasted a lot of time and problem before I learned that the all-time way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone."
― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

"And I will expect downwardly and meet my murmuring basic and the deep h2o like current of air, like a roof of air current, and after a long time they cannot distinguish even bones upon the lonely and inviolate sand."
― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

"Because no battle is always won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to homo his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools."
― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

"…I seemed to exist lying neither comatose nor awake looking down a long corridor of grey half light where all stable things had get shadowy paradoxical all I had done shadows all I had felt suffered taking visible course caper and perverse mocking without relevance inherent themselves with the denial of the significance they should have affirmed thinking I was I was not who was not was not who."
― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

"It's always the idle habits you acquire which yous will regret. Male parent said that. That Christ was not crucified: he was worn away by a minute clicking of fiddling wheels. That had no sister."
― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

"They all talked at one time, their voices insistent and contradictory and impatient, making of unreality a possibility, then a probability, then an incontrovertible fact, as people will when their desires become words."
― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

"Because Father said clocks slay time. He said time is dead every bit long every bit it is being clicked off by little wheels; merely when the clock stops does time come to life."
― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

"I suppose that people, using themselves and each other so much by words, are at least consistent in attributing wisdom to a still tongue..."
― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

"I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the final light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then across them lights began in the pale articulate air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long fashion off."
― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

"So Ben wailed once more, hopeless and prolonged. Information technology was null. Simply audio. It might have been all time and injustice and sorrow go vocal for an instant by a conjunction of planets."
― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

"whatever live man is ameliorate than any dead human being but no alive or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man"
― William Faulkner, The Audio and the Fury

"I took out my watch and listened to it clicking abroad, not knowing information technology couldn't even lie"
― William Faulkner, The Audio and the Fury

"Even audio seemed to fail in this air, like the air was worn out with carrying sounds then long."
― William Faulkner, The Audio and the Fury

"In the South yous are ashamed of beingness a virgin. Boys. Men. They lie almost information technology. Because it means less to women, Father said. He said it was men invented virginity non women. Male parent said it's like decease: just a land in which the others are left and I said, Simply to believe information technology doesn't matter and he said, That'due south what's so pitiful about anything: not only virginity and I said, Why couldn't it have been me and not her who is unvirgin and he said, That's why that'southward sad too; aught is even worth the changing of it..."
― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

"and i temporary and he was the saddest discussion of all there is nothing else in the world its not despair until time its not even fourth dimension until it was"
― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

"Ninety-nine per centum talent…xc-nine percent discipline…xc-nine percent work. He must never be satisfied with what he does. It is never every bit good every bit it can be washed. E'er dream and shoot higher than y'all know you tin do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be meliorate than yourself. An artist is a animal driven by demons. He doesn't know why they cull him and he's ordinarily too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to become the piece of work washed."
― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

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