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NOVELISTS > novelist, poet, critic, teacher > Robert Penn Warren
The end of...
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The end of man is knowledge, but [man] can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him; 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.
Source: In Quotations of Wit and Wisdom, ed. & John W. Garder et al., 1975.
-- 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.