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| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
| 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. |
| The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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