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Tell me a story of deep delight.
Robert Penn Warren
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Robert Penn Warren
Age: 84 †
Born: 1905
Born: April 24
Died: 1989
Died: September 15
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Guthrie
Kentucky
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...a man does not die for words. He dies for his relation to them.
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But for the present I would lie there and know I didn't have to get up, and feel the holy emptiness and blessed fatigue of a saint after the dark night of the soul. For God and Nothing have a lot in common. You look either one of Them straight in the eye for a second and the immediate effect on the human constitution is the same.
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The asking and the answering which history provides may help us to understand, even to frame, the logic of experience to which we shall submit. History cannot give us a program for the future, but it can give us a fuller understanding of ourselves, and of our common humanity, so that we can better face the future.
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More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past.
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Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. They're inexpensive and easy to procure.
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Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write.
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They say you are not you except in terms of relation to other people. If there weren't any other people there wouldn't be any you because what you do, which is what you are, only has meaning in relation to other people.
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It is human defect — to try to know oneself by the self of another.
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