“…women aren't interested in the romance of dreams; they are interested in the reality of facts, they don't care what facts, let alone whether they are true or not if they just dovetail with all the other facts without leaving a saw-tooth edge.”

—  William Faulkner , book The Town

Gavin Stevens paraphrasing Eula Varner Snopes in Ch. 15
The Town (1957)

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American writer 1897–1962

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