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Been Quotes by Carl Sandburg
- All my life I have been trying to learn, to read, to see and hear, and to write. At sixty-five I began my first novel…
- It is necessary now and then for a man to go away by himself and experience loneliness; to sit on a rock in the forest…
- Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?
- Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
- I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.
- There have been as many varieties of socialists as there are wild birds that fly in the woods and sometimes go up and on through…
- We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.
- It is necessary ... for a man to go away by himself ... to sit on a rock ... and ask, 'Who am I, where…
- Faith is indispensable, and the world at times does not seem to have quite enough of it. It can and has accomplished what seems to…
- Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that…
- All my life I have been trying to learn to read, to see and hear, and to write.
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