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NOVELISTS > novelist, poet, critic, teacher > Robert Penn Warren
A young man's...
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A young man's ambition [is] to get along in the world and make a place for himself half your life goes that way, till you're 45 or 50. Then, if you're lucky, you make terms with life, you get released.
Source: In NY Times, 2 Jun 1981.
-- Robert Penn Warren, (Apr 24 1905-1989), US novelist, poet, critic, teacher; He was best-known for his treatment of moral dilemmas in a South beset by the erosion of traditional, rural values; first U.S. poet laureate, 1986.