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“All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.”
William Faulkner (1897 – 1962), U.S. novelist. Interview in Writers at Work (First Series, ed. by Malcolm Cowley, 1958), referring to Faulkner’s writing contemporaries.
William Faulkner (September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was a Nobel Prize-winning American author. One of the most influential writers of the 20th century, his reputation is based on his novels, novellas and short stories. However, he was also a published poet and …+
