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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was - only is.

William Faulkner

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