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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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More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past.
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If you look at a thing, the very fact of your looking changes it...if you think about yourself, that very fact changes you.
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If you are an idealist, it does not matter what you do or what goes on around you because it isn't real anyway.
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What is man but his passion?
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Politics is a matter of choices, and a man doesn't set up the choices himself. And there is always a price to make a choice. You know that. You've made a choice, and you know how much it cost you. There is always a price.
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Nobody had ever told me that anything could be like this.
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Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something (All The King's Men)
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Tell me a story of deep delight.
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Everything seems an echo of something else.
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Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write.
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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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To be an American is not...a matter of blood it is a matter of an idea--and history is the image of that idea.
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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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The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful.
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That summer we had been absolutely alone, together, even when people were around, the only inhabitants of the kind of floating island or magic carpet which being in love is.
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Perhaps he had to be close in order to keep a reason for the things he did. To make the things he did be themselves Life. And not merely a delightful exercise of technical skill which man had been able to achieve because he, of all the animals, had a fine thumb. Which is nonsense, for whatever you live is Life.
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Most writers are trying to find what they think or feel. . . not simply working from the given, but toward the given, saying the unsayable and steadily asking, What do I really feel about this?
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The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life.
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Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money.
Robert Penn Warren
For whatever you live is life.
Robert Penn Warren
