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Quotes from All the King's Men — Robert Penn Warren

1905–1989

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Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something.

All the King's Men (1946)

If you could not accept the past and its burden, there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other, and [...] if you could accept the past you might hope for the future, for only out of the past can you make the future.

All the King's Men (1946)

The end of man is knowledge but there's one thing he can't know. He can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right, but he can't know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because of the knowledge which he hasn't got and which if he had it would save him.

All the King's Men (1946)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert Penn Warren (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.