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Mississippi Quote of the Day
August 17, 2017
“I decline to accept the end of man. I believe man will not merely endure – he will prevail.”—William Faulkner Nobel Prize address
Photo of William Faulkner is courtesy of Jack Cofield
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Photo of William Faulkner is courtesy of Jack Cofield
EDMM
August 17, 2017 at 10:06 am
That is not what he said, and you should not use ” ” marks if you do not have a quote. What Mr. Faulkner said was :
I decline to accept the end of man. It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure: that when the last dingdong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of his puny inexhaustible voice, still talking.
I refuse to accept this. I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail.