I'm a pretty voracious reader but I never could get into Faulkner for some reason. And those quotes really don't strike me as anything special.

My list for the best (or at least my favorites) would be:

Hemingway
Melville
Kerouac
Twain
Fitzgerald
Mailer
Hawthorne

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What three works would you out against Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls, A Farewell to Arms, Hills Like White Elephants?

Those aren't even his three best IMO. For short stories, A Clean Well Lighted Place I think is at the top along with Big Two Hearted River. For novels the two you list would be in the running but my favorites (and the ones I've re-read most) are The Sun Also Rises and The Old Man and the Sea.

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Posted by LobbyingLeprechaun

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Posted on 5/26/14 at 8:42 am to Methuselah

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My list for the best (or at least my favorites) would be:
Hemingway
Melville
Kerouac
Twain
Fitzgerald
Mailer
Hawthorne

Add Vonnegut, Burroughs, Faulkner, Wallace (David Foster), Poe, Steinbeck, Williams (Tennessee), and Whitman to your list of *NEED TO READ; AMERICAN AUTHORS*

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Posted by LouisianaLady

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Posted on 5/26/14 at 8:45 am to Methuselah

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I'm a pretty voracious reader but I never could get into Faulkner for some reason. And those quotes really don't strike me as anything special.

It took a while for him to grow on me, but they're chilling sometimes when you think of the context of the work. And I just love that he can imply so much to us.

Caddy's loss of innocence from Benjy's POV.. Temple's seeming acceptance of rape (in Sanctuary).. I could go on forever.

As far as my favorite novelist to pull quotes from... Kurt Vonnegut

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Posted by LouisianaLady

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Posted on 5/26/14 at 8:53 am to Methuselah