Faulkner had an egg carton filled with periods and throughout his writing career, used nearly all of them.

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William Faulkner was a famous author from the era of the Great Depression. In his novels, he would often use periods as a substitute for commas. He said that many people who were not educated enough to know the difference between a comma and a period were “born with a margin of error wide enough to catch a period”. It is for this reason, he used so many periods in his novels. He also liked using them to emphasize a thought or make a point, which is why they appear in many of his quotes.

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