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William Faulkner | 'Only Southerners have taken horsewhips and pistols to editors about ...

'Only Southerners have taken horsewhips and pistols to editors about the treatment or maltreatment of their manuscript. This--the actual pistols--was in the old days, of course, we no longer succumb to the impulse. But it is still there, within us.'

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