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6 quotes from Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner, each verified verbatim against the text and located in the book.

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From a little after two oclock until almost sundown of the long still hot weary dead September afternoon they sat in what Miss Coldfield still called the office because her father had called it that
— The narrator · William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom! (1936), opening of the first sentence
Her voice would not cease, it would just vanish.
— The narrator · William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom! (1936)
the Quentin Compson preparing for Harvard in the South, the deep South dead since 1865 and peopled with garrulous outraged baffled ghosts
— The narrator · William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom! (1936)
he was not a being, an entity, he was a commonwealth.
— The narrator · William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom! (1936)
I found that she was not and could never be, through no fault of her own, adjunctive or incremental to the design which I had in mind, so I provided for her and put her aside.
— Thomas Sutpen, as retold by Quentin · William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom! (1936)
I dont hate it
— Quentin (dialogue) · William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom! (1936)

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