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You can't understand it. You would have to be born there.

William Faulkner

Absalom, Absalom!

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On the South.

Buy Absalom, Absalom! Buy Absalom, Absalom!

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Faulkner, William. Absalom, Absalom! Chelsea House Publishers, 1987, p. 85.

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Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out and death's the other.

Tennessee Williams

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Williams, Tennessee. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Directed by Elia Kazan. Performed by Barbara Bel Geddes and Burl Ives and Ben Gazzara. 24 Mar. 1955, Morosco Theatre, New York City, New York, USA, act 2.

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Williams, Tennessee. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. New Directions, 2004, act 2.

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I preach that there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's, but behind all of them there's only one truth and that is that there's no truth.

Flannery O'Connor

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O'Connor, Flannery. Wise Blood. Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1952, ch. 10.

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