Main Title: As I Lay Dying
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Author: Faulkner, William
First Published: 1930
Publisher Used for Citing: Vintage
Type: Fiction
Period: 20th Century

Because I said If you wouldn’t keep on sawing and nailing at it until a man can’t sleep even and her hands laying on the quilt like two of them roots dug up and tried to wash and you couldn’t get them clean.


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