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Quotation from The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

“I says you dont know what a headache is”

William Faulkner (spoken by Jason Compson)

The Sound and the Fury, April Sixth, 1928 (PG #75170)

Jason, who doses himself with camphor and scorns his mother's aspirin, insists his suffering exceeds everyone else's, a small instance of the self-pity that drives his narration.

Citation: "I says you dont know what a headache is" — William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury, April Sixth, 1928 (PG #75170). (id faulkner-the-sound-and-the-fury-q9)

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