“At least wasn't nobody, no outsider, there to hear it so maybe even before next January he was able to believe hadn't none of it even been said, like miracle: what aint believed aint seen. Miracle, pure miracle anyhow, how little a man needs to outlast jest [just] about anything.”

—  William Faulkner, book The Mansion

V. K. Ratliff about Gavin Stevens in Ch. 6
The Mansion (1959)

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