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Absalom, Absalom! Quotes

Thank God you can flee, can escape from that massy five-foot-thick maggot-cheesy solidarity which overlays the earth, in which men and women in couples are ranked like ninepins. - William Faulkner (Absalom, Absalom! Quotes)

Thank God you can flee, can escape from that massy five-foot-thick maggot-cheesy solidarity which overlays the earth, in which men and women in couples are ranked like ninepins.

Source:(Modern Library, ed. 1951), Chapter 8, Page 312
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William Faulkner (Absalom, Absalom! Quotes)
  • Book: Absalom, Absalom!
  • Writer: William Faulkner
  • Genre: Historical Fiction
  • Published: 1936
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