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Writers are notoriously unable to know about themselves. faulkner thought 'the fable' was his best novel. f. scott fitzgerald liked 'tender is the night,' an experimental novel.
-Joyce Carol Oates
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Joyce Carol Oates
Writers are notoriously unable to know about themselves. faulkner thought 'the fable' was his best novel. f. scott fitzgerald liked 'tender is the night,' an experimental novel.
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