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Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.

William Faulkner

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William Faulkner
Age: 64 †
Born: 1897
Born: September 25
Died: 1962
Died: July 6
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Novelist
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New Albany
Mississippi
William Cuthbert Faulkner
William Falkner
William Cuthbert Falkner
South
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Everyone
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