the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone ca…

William Faulkner
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the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat ✨ Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Stockholm, 10 Dec. 1950
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