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Charly Charly said: " Faulkner is not for everyone. I get it. This is another frustrating read where the plot is obfuscated by multiple narrators, none of which have all the facts, and who ramble on for pages and pages and pages.

However, the tradeoff is that the careful a
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Ernest Hemingway
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”
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Ambrose Bierce
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Voltaire
“A witty saying proves nothing.”
― Voltaire

Theodore Roosevelt
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― Theodore Roosevelt

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