Snopes Quotes

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Why yes he thought it ain't a place a man wants to go back to; the place dont even need to be there no more. What aches a man to go back to is what he remembers.

from... THE MANSION page 106”
― William Faulkner, Snopes: The Hamlet, The Town, The Mansion

“VIRTUOUS WIFE Is A CROWN TO HER HUSBAND
HER CHILDREN RISE AND CALL HER BLESSED”
― William Faulkner, Snopes: The Hamlet, The Town, The Mansion

“When the papers are full of gals still carrying a doll in one hand marrying folks of sixty and seventy, providing of course they got a little extra money.”
― William Faulkner, Snopes: The Hamlet, The Town, The Mansion

“He didn’t dare at his age to find out that all you need to handle nine people out of ten is just to trust them.”
― William Faulkner, Snopes: The Hamlet, The Town, The Mansion

“So the son of a bitch fooled you,” I said. “You thought they were going to hang him but all he got was life.”
― William Faulkner, Snopes: The Hamlet, The Town, The Mansion

“What’s that sound I smell?”
― William Faulkner, Snopes: The Hamlet, The Town, The Mansion

“If you are a man, you can lie unconscious in the gutter bleeding and with most of your teeth knocked out and somebody can take your pocketbook and you can wake up and wash the blood off and it’s all right; you can always get some more teeth and even another pocketbook sooner or later.”
― William Faulkner, Snopes: The Hamlet, The Town, The Mansion

“Respectability,” Ratliff said. “Respectability?” “That’s right,” Ratliff said. “When it’s jest money and power a man wants, there is usually some place”
― William Faulkner, Snopes: The Hamlet, The Town, The Mansion

“You dont give a damn about truth either. What you are interested in is justice.”
― William Faulkner, Snopes: The Hamlet, The Town, The Mansion

“There’s a pill for every ill but the last one.”
― William Faulkner, Snopes: The Hamlet, The Town, The Mansion

“wanted some more gals. Others had done married and moved away, and a passel of boys, soon as they get big enough to be worth anything, they aint got time to work.”
― William Faulkner, Snopes: The Hamlet, The Town, The Mansion

“and discharged the woman cook and gave away the chickens. The”
― William Faulkner, Snopes: The Hamlet, The Town, The Mansion

“But then the sick grow well fast in the sun; perhaps when he returned to”
― William Faulkner, Snopes: The Hamlet, The Town, The Mansion

“Varner would now be again, what with a second new clerk in the store—the new clerk exactly like the old one but a little smaller, a little compacter, as if they had both been cut with the same die but in inverse order to appearance, the last first and after the edges of the die were dulled and spread a little—with his little, full, bright-pink mouth like a kitten’s button and his bright, quick, amoral eyes like a chipmunk and his air of merry and incorrigible and unflagging conviction of the inherent constant active dishonesty of all men, including himself.”
― William Faulkner, Snopes: The Hamlet, The Town, The Mansion