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William Faulkner

"Government was founded on the working premiss of being primarily an asylum for ineptitude and indigence."

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"Maybe times are never strange to women: it is just one continuous monotonous thing full of the repeated follies of their menfolks."
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"Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean."
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"Listen: it's got to be all honeymoon, always. Either heaven, or hell: no comfortable safe peaceful purgatory between for you and me to wait in until good behavior or forbearance or shame or repentance overtakes us."
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