Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you …

William Faulkner
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Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good. ✨ A Faulkner perspective: a companion-guide to the limited first edition of the Selected letters of William Faulkner.
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