It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand 30,000. (William Faulkner)

It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand 30,000.

William Faulkner

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