Ocupation: Writer
Life: September 25, 1897 - July 6, 1962
Birthday: September 25
Death: July 6
I learned little save that most of the deeds, good and bad both, incurring opprobrium or plaudits or reward either, within the scope of man's abilities, had already been performed and were to be learned about only from books.
source: William Faulkner, Noel Polk (1987). “Absalom, Absalom!, typescript setting copy and miscellaneous material”, Facsimiles-Garl
topic: Book, Reading, Men, Incurring