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My only crime was being a man and living in the world of men, and you don't have to do special penance for that. The crime and the penance, in that case, coincide perfectly. They are identical.
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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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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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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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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