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The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.

William Faulkner

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William Faulkner
Age: 64 †
Born: 1897
Born: September 25
Died: 1962
Died: July 6
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Poet
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New Albany
Mississippi
William Cuthbert Faulkner
William Falkner
William Cuthbert Falkner
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Spaceship
Earth
Beings
Homemade
Human
Already
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Humans
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Trying
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Launch
Going
Last
Quarrels
Sound
Worthless
Next
Communism
Quarreling

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