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... women are not interested in truth or romance but only in facts whether they are true or not, just so they fit all the other facts.

— William Faulkner The Town (1957)

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Source: Gavin Stevens in Ch. 17; also in this chapter Gavin Stevens reflects — twice — that men are "interested in facts too".
Work: The Town, 1957
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