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The Sound and the Fury

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The Sound and the Fury

William Faulkner

Important Quotations Explained

1. Caddy smells like trees.

Explanation for Quotation #1

2. If I'd just had a mother so I could say Mother Mother

Explanation for Quotation #2

3. I wouldn't lay my hand on her. The bitch that cost me a job, the one chance I ever had to get ahead, that killed my father and is shortening my mother's life every day and made my name a laughing stock in the town. I wont do anything to her.

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4. Whoever God is, He would not permit that. I'm a lady. You might not believe that from my offspring, but I am.

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5. I seed de beginnin, en now I sees de endin.

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