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NUMBER:21898
QUOTATION: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.
ATTRIBUTION:William Faulkner (1897–1962), U.S. novelist. Interview, in Writers at Work, First Series, ed. Malcolm Cowley (1958).

Referring to Faulkner’s writing contemporaries.
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia.
 
 
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