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As I Lay Dying Quotes

He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn’t need a word for that anymore than for pride or fear.

Source:(Random House, ed. 1964), Chapter 40. Addie, Page 164
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William Faulkner (As I Lay Dying Quotes)
  • Book: As I Lay Dying
  • Writer: William Faulkner
  • Genre: Fiction, Southern Gothic
  • Published: 1930
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