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You don’t choose a story, it chooses you.
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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If something takes too long, something happens to you. You become all and only the thing you want and nothing else, for you have paid too much for it, too much in wanting and too much in waiting and too much in getting.
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Your business as a writer is not to illustrate virtue but to show how a fellow may move toward it or away from it.
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It is human defect — to try to know oneself by the self of another.
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The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.
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Nobody had ever told me that anything could be like this.
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In America they have to know just what you are-- novelist, poet, playwright... Well, I've been all of them... I think poems and novels and stories spring from the same seed. It's not like, say, playing polo and knitting.
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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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History is all explained by geography.
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The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.
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More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past.
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There was nothing particularly wrong with them they were just the ordinary garden variety of human garbage.
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What is man but his passion?
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I've been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing was always first. It's a kind of pain I can't do without.
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