William Faulkner said to his brother John on the hospital steps after his mother's death regarding an afterlife, "Maybe it's radio waves."

WTF?

"Memory believes before knowing remembers. Belelives longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders."

WTF?

Hemingway on Faulkner: "Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use."

Faulkner on Hemingway: "[he] had never been known to use a word that might send the reader to the dictionary."

WTF?



 




 


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