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Robert Penn Warren
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born
April 24, 1905
in Guthrie, Kentucky, The United States
died
September 15, 1989
gender
male
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All the King’s Men
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1946
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50 editions
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All the King's Men
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1960
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The Collected Poems of Robert Penn Warren
by Robert Penn Warren, John Burt , Harold Bloom 4.29 avg rating — 83 ratings
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1998
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Band of Angels
  3.67 avg rating — 94 ratings
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published
1955
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Place to Come to
3.90 avg rating — 101 ratings
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World Enough and Time
3.64 avg rating — 75 ratings
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published
1950
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6 editions
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Short Story Masterpieces
by Robert Penn Warren , Albert Erskine 3.85 avg rating — 71 ratings
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published
1954
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The Circus in the Attic and Other Stories
4.14 avg rating — 36 ratings
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1947
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Six Centuries of Great Poetry: A Stunning Collection of Classic British Poems from Chaucer to Yeats
by Robert Penn Warren, Albert Erskine 3.71 avg rating — 42 ratings
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New and Selected Poems, 1923-1985
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1976
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“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. 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.”
― Robert Penn Warren, All the King’s Men
― Robert Penn Warren, All the King’s Men
“There is nothing more alone than being in a car at night in the rain. I was in the car. And I was glad of it. Between one point on the map and another point on the map, there was the being alone in the car in the rain. They say you are not you except in terms of relation to other people. If there weren't any other people there wouldn't be any you because what you do which is what you are, only has meaning in relation to other people. That is a very comforting thought when you are in the car in the rain at night alone, for then you aren't you, and not being you or anything, you can really lie back and get some rest. It is a vacation from being you. There is only the flow of the motor under you foot spinning that frail thread of sound out of its metal guy like a spider, that filament, that nexus, which isn't really there, between the you which you have just left in one place and the you which you will be where you get to the other place.”
― Robert Penn Warren
― Robert Penn Warren
“For West is where we all plan to go some day. 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. It is where you go when you look down at the blade in your hand and the blood on it. It is where you go when you are told that you are a bubble on the tide of empire. It is where you go when you hear that thar's gold in them-thar hills. It is where you go to grow up with the country. It is where you go to spend your old age. Or it is just where you go.”
― Robert Penn Warren
― Robert Penn Warren
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Tiny Duffy
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Lucy Stark
Tom Stark
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Joe Harrison
Joel Stanton
Theodore Murrell
Willie Stark
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Gummy Larson
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Byram B. White
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