Quotes from book
The Town
The Town is a novel by the American author William Faulkner, published in 1957, about the fictional Snopes family of Mississippi. It is the second of the "Snopes" trilogy, following The Hamlet and completed by The Mansion .
“…between what did happen and what ought to happened, I dont never have trouble picking ought.”
V. K. Ratliff in Ch. 6
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Gavin Stevens in Ch. 17; also in this chapter Gavin Stevens reflects — twice — that men are "interested in facts too".
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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.
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Gavin Stevens paraphrasing Eula Varner Snopes in Ch. 15
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“…girls, women, are not interested in romance but only facts.”
Gavin Stevens to Eula Varner Snopes in Ch. 20
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Charles Mallinson in Ch. 19; Charles Mallinson's mother, Maggie, and his uncle, Gavin Stevens, besides being their parents' only children, are twins.
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“You don't know very much about women, do you?”
she said. "Women aren't interested in poets' dreams. They are interested in facts. It doesn't even matter whether the facts are true or not, as long as they match the other facts without leaving a rough seam."
Eula Varner Snopes to Gavin Stevens in Ch. 15
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