“"You don't know very much about women, do you?" she said. "Women aren't interested in poets' dreams. They are interested in facts. It doesn't even matter whether the facts are true or not, as long as they match the other facts without leaving a rough seam."”

—  William Faulkner , book The Town

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

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