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William Faulkner Quotes
Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it... the basest of all things is to be afraid.
William Faulkner

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Novelist Quotes
Category:
American Novelist Quotes
Date of Birth:
September 25, 1897
Date of Death:
July 6, 1962
Nationality:
American
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