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This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them.

This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them.

William Faulkner
Country, Letters, Reading Books

The writer in America isn't part of the culture of this country. He's like a fine dog. People like him around, but he's of no use.

William Faulkner
Country, Dog, Art
William Faulkner, Paul Gardner, Eric Mottram (1976). “A Faulkner perspective: a companion-guide to the limited first edition of the Selected letters of William Faulkner”

That's the one trouble with this country: everything, weather, all, hangs on too long. Like our rivers, our land: opaque, slow, violent; shaping and creating the life of man in its implacable and brooding image.

William Faulkner
Country, Men, Land
William Faulkner (1985). “Novels, 1930-1935”, Library of America

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