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Robert Penn Warren was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic. His works are known for their profound social insight and unique portrayal of Southern culture. Warren's poetry and novels have won numerous literary awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1947 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1955.

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“There ain't anything worth doing a man can do and keep his dignity. Can you figure out a single thing you really please-God like to do you can do and keep your dignity? The human frame just ain't built that way.”

Men Way Humans Can Do Figures Please Built Dignity Anything Worth Doing

Book:All the King's Men

Source: All the King's Men

“But for the present I would lie there and know I didn't have to get up, and feel the holy emptiness and blessed fatigue of a saint after the dark night of the soul. For God and Nothing have a lot in common. You look either one of Them straight in the eye for a second and the immediate effect on the human constitution is the same.”

Knows Feels Humans Looks Soul Eye Lying Night Dark Common Effects Holy Constitution Blessed Saint Get Up Emptiness Fatigue Dark Night Dark Night Of The Soul

Book:All the King's Men

Source: All the King's Men

“It is human defect — to try to know oneself by the self of another.”

Knows Trying Humans Self Defects

Author:Robert Penn Warren

“And what we students of history always learn is that the human being is a very complicated contraption and that they are not good or bad but are good and bad and the good comes out of the bad and the bad out of the good, and the devil take the hindmost.”

Humans Human Beings Students Devil Complicated Good And Bad

Book:All the King's Men

Source: All the King's Men

“There was nothing particularly wrong with them; they were just the ordinary garden variety of human garbage.”

Humans Ordinary Garden Variety Garbage

Book:All the King's Men

Source: All the King's Men

About the Author

Born: April 24, 1905
Died: September 15, 1989
Known for: Poet
Quotes: 125

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All the King's MenRelated source material

The Collected Poems of Robert Penn WarrenRelated source material

The Legacy of the Civil WarRelated source material

Robert Penn Warren talking: interviews, 1950-1978Related source material

A Place to Come ToRelated source material

Selected Poems, 1923-1975Related source material

Wilderness: A Tale of the Civil WarRelated source material

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A Time to Hear and Answer: Essays for the Bicentennial SeasonRelated source material

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