“In the sight of my beloved, I am like iron that the smith has heated at his furnace: iron whose surface gives heat. I am a bar that is rigid and will not bend.”

—  William March, book The Tallons

The Tallons (1936)

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United States Marine, novelist, short story writer 1893–1954

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