...the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time. ✨ …

William Faulkner
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...the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time. ✨ William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill, John Steinbeck (1971). William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill [and] John Steinbeck
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