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Intruder in the Dust

William Faulkner

Intruder in the Dust is a novel by the Nobel Prize–winning American author William Faulkner published

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“It was like something you have dreaded and feared and dodged for years until it seemed like all your life, then despite everything it happened to you and all it was was just pain, all it did was hurt and so it was all over, all finished, all right.”

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“We shall not kill and maybe next time we even won't.”

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“It was just noon that Saturday morning when the sheriff reached the jail with Lucas Beauchamp though the whole town (the whole county for that matter) had known since the night before that Lucas had killed a white man.”

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The opening sentence of the novel, Ch. 1
Intruder in the Dust (1948)

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