I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth…

William Faulkner
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I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long enough to exhaust it. ✨ Francis Lee Utley, William Faulkner, Lynn Z. Bloom, Arthur F. Kinney (1964). Bear, man, & God: seven approaches to William Faulkner's The bear
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