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"Once a bitch always a bitch, what I say."
William FaulknerEven a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as an honest ma — William Faulkner
"Even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as an honest man can be tortured into telling a lie."
William Faulkner
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William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer. He is best known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, a stand-in for Lafayette County where he spent most of his life. Winner of the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature, Faulkner is one of the most celebrated writers of American literature, often considered the greatest writer of Southern literature an
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