All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. ...

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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

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Author, was recipient of the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature

Born:25th September, 1897
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