It is the writer's privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart. …

William Faulkner
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It is the writer's privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart. ✨ William Faulkner, Joseph L. Fant, Robert Paul Ashley (1964). Faulkner at West Point, p.46, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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It is the writer's privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart. ✨ William Faulkner, Joseph L. Fant, Robert Paul Ashley (1964). Faulkner at West Point, p.46, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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