Spoken in a play that is mostly read as a novel, by a character who has reason to wish the past would stay buried. Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha books are the long demonstration of the line: slavery, the war, the families, all of it still in the room. The sentence has been used as a caption for every scandal since. It earns the use. He also said, in the Nobel speech of 1950, that man would not only endure but prevail. The two claims are both his. This one is the harder to live with.