Odd Beginnings to Familiar Quotes
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Being a real estate broker in addition to a writer, I am always somewhat sensitive to historical home purchases, and try to study them when I find an interesting one.
Author, William Faulkner, was always known as a bad negotiator, but a respected and highly-quoted writer.
As he was negotiating on his Oxford, MS house, Rowan Oak, an extremely invasive species of birds moved in to roost at the same time, covering the grounds with hundreds of the creatures.
Not being a fan of birds, he ignored the house’s price being too high, and other repairs needing to be made, items that usually would have stopped any other sale.
Instead, Faulkner was so distraught about the birds, the only thing he could bluster to the seller was “first kill all your starlings.”
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