The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies. ✨ …

William Faulkner
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The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies. ✨ William Faulkner (1994). Novels 1942-1954
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...how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life. ✨ William Faulkner (1972). Light in August, Vintage
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Yes sir. You can be more careless, you can put more trash in [a novel] and be excused for it. In a short story that's next to the poem, almost every word has got to be almost exactly right. In the no … ▶
I've got to feel the pencil and see the words at the end of the pencil.
No man can write who is not first a humanitarian ✨ 1957 In Time, 25 Feb.

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