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Quotation from The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
“Bad health is the primary reason for all life. Created by disease, within putrefaction, into decay”
The Sound and the Fury, April Seventh, 1928 (remembered supper scene) (PG #75170)
Answering his wife's anxiety about Uncle Maury's health, Mr. Compson turns a complaint into a philosophy of decay before calling for the decanter.
Citation: "Bad health is the primary reason for all life. Created by disease, within putrefaction, into decay" — William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury, April Seventh, 1928 (remembered supper scene) (PG #75170). (id faulkner-the-sound-and-the-fury-q3)
