William Faulkner book The Town
Gavin Stevens in Ch. 8
The two lines quoted — not altogether accurately — are from A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad (1896), XVIII:<p>And now the fancy passes by
And nothing will remain.
The Town (1957)
“Nothing lasts and yet nothing passes either, and nothing passes just because nothing lasts.”
— Philip Roth, book The Human Stain
Source: The Human Stain
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