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What's wrong with this world is, it's not finished yet. It is not completed to that point where man can put his final signature to the job and say, It is finished. We made it, and it works.
William Faulkner
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William Faulkner
Age: 64 †
Born: 1897
Born: September 25
Died: 1962
Died: July 6
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Menfolks listens to somebody because of what he says. Women don't. They don't care what he said. They listens because of what he is.
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It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless.
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