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The Sound and the Fury

 William Faulkner
 

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1. Caddy smells like trees.
 
 
2. If I'd just had a mother so I could say Mother Mother
 
 
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.
 
 
4. Whoever God is, He would not permit that. I'm a lady. You might not believe that from my offspring, but I am.
 
 
5. I seed de beginnin, en now I sees de endin.
 
 
 
 
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