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We must just stay awake and see evil done for a little while it's not always.
William Faulkner
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William Faulkner
Age: 64 †
Born: 1897
Born: September 25
Died: 1962
Died: July 6
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William Cuthbert Faulkner
William Falkner
William Cuthbert Falkner
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This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them.
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It is not proof that I sought. I, of all men, know that proof is but a fallacy invented by man to justify to himself and his fellows his own crass lust and folly.
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We have all heard what we wanted to hear! Truth that sounds right to our ears!
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