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Poets are almost always wrong about facts. That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth. - William Faulkner (The Town Quotes)

Poets are almost always wrong about facts. That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth.

Source:(Random House, ed. 1957), Chapter 5. Gavin Stevens, Page 88
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William Faulkner (The Town Quotes)
  • Book: The Town
  • Writer: William Faulkner
  • Genre: Fiction, Classics
  • Published: 1957
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