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294 quotes from Robert Penn Warren: 'Tell me a story of deep delight.', 'The end of man is knowledge, but there is one thing he can't know. He can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him.
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All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren. 63,841 ratings, 4.09 average rating, 3,295 reviews. Open Preview. All the King’s Men Quotes Showing 1-30 of 206. “The end of man is knowledge, but there is one thing he can't know. He can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him.
- Robert Penn Warren
- 1946
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To get there you follow Highway 58, going northeast out of the city, and it is a good highway and new. Or was new, the day we went up it.
It may be the reason they don't seem real to you is that you aren't very real yourself.[W]illie was coming up for re-election and his chances looked about as good as the chances of a flea making a living off a carved marble lion on a monument.If something takes too long, something happens to you. You become all and only the thing you want and nothing else, for you have paid too much for it, too much in wanting and too much in waiting an..."Yeah," I said, "I heard the speech. But they don't give a damn about that. Hell, make 'em cry, make 'em laugh, make 'em think you're their weak erring pal, or make 'em think you're God-Almighty. O...You see a woman around for a long time and think that she is ugly. You think she is nothing. Then, all of a sudden, you think how she is under that baggy tweed or droopy seersucker. All of a sudden...I looked out the window and saw that it was going to be another day, and shaved, and dressed, and went down to get a cup of coffee.We get very few of the true images in our heads […], the kind which become more and more vivid for us as if the passage of the years did not obscure their reality, but, year by year, drew off anoth...
[T]he story of Willie Stark and the story of Jack Burden are, in one sense, one story.[N]othing happened to Jack Burden, for nothing ever happened to Jack Burden, who was invulnerable. Perhaps that was the curse of Jack Burden: he was invulnerable.It is human defect—to try to know oneself by the self of another.For many cannot bear their eyes upon [Negroes], and enter into evil and cruel ways in their desperation.Cass Mastern lived for a few years and in that time he learned that the world is all of one piece. He learned that the world is like an enormous spider web and if you touch it however lightly, at a..."Boy," he said, "you work for me because I'm the way I am and you're the way you are. It is an arrangement founded on the nature of things." "That's a hell of a fine explanation." "It's not an expl...
[T]here once was a man named Dante, who said that the truly proud man who knew his own worth could never commit the sin of envy, for he could believe that there was no one for him to envy. He might...
For West is where we all plan to go someday. It is where you go when the land gives out and the old-field pines encroach. It is where you go when you get the letter saying: Flee, all is discovered....
You live with words a long time. Then all at once you are old, and there are the things and the words don't matter
But if anything is for certain it is that no story is ever over, for the story which we think is over is only a chapter in a story which will not be over[.]
"Well, I'm telling you something. You are the stinkingest louse God ever let live." I relished the moment of profound silence which followed, then plunged on, "And you think you can buy me in. Well...
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Oct 29, 2023 · Quotes about Robert Penn Warren [ edit ] I don't think that the Negro problem in America can be even discussed coherently without bearing in mind its context; its context being the history, traditions, customs, the moral assumptions and preoccupations of the country; in short, the general social fabric.
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