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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.

William Faulkner

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Yes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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