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You have to make the good out of the bad because that is all you have got to make it out of.
Robert Penn Warren
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Robert Penn Warren
Age: 84 †
Born: 1905
Born: April 24
Died: 1989
Died: September 15
Journalist
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Guthrie
Kentucky
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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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There was nothing particularly wrong with them they were just the ordinary garden variety of human garbage.
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The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life.
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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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...a man does not die for words. He dies for his relation to them.
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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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Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write.
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Tell me a story of deep delight.
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The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful.
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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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You don’t choose a story, it chooses 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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Everything seems an echo of something else.
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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 urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.
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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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More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past.
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