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"ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crises with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from truth."

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About William Faulkner

William Faulkner was an American novelist and short-story writer whose works reshaped modern fiction. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949 for his contribution to the modern American novel.

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