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Shelby Foote has 34 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The Civil War defined us as what we are and it opened us to being what we became, good and bad things...…
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North was only a direction indicated by a compass--if a man had one, that is, for otherwise there was no north or…
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Generally the first week in September brings the hottest weather of the year, and this was no exception. Overhead the fans turned…
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Grant was something rare in that or any war. He could learn from experience.
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I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making…
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People make a grievous error thinking that a list of facts is the truth. Facts are just the bare bones out of…
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I've never known, at least a modern historical instance, where the truth wasn't superior to distortion in every way.
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People want to know why the South is so interested in the Civil War. I had maybe, it's a rough guess, about…
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And I really do think that the difficulty of research makes it more real to you than punching a thing to find…
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But the same thing was true in the army. You slept in a barracks with all kinds of people of every nationality,…
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I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite…
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Getting close to books, and spending time by myself, I was obliged to think about things I would never have thought about…
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When the early Europeans first met Africans, at the crossroads of history, it was a respectful meeting and the Africans were not…
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Every day is a crossroads. Every day is a chance to change your life and our world for the better.
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We are at a crossroads in human history. Never before has there been a moment so simultaneously perilous and promising. We are…
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I know you're supposed to set goals for yourself. I see all that motivational stuff on television. Think about the future, what's…
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I stood at a crossroads and fate came to meet me.
— Liz Greene
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Man is born as a seed; he can become a flower, he may not. It all depends on you, what you do…
— Rajneesh
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I'm always looking for those places where you can slam really disparate people up against one another, and they have to deal…
— Jenji Kohan
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We're at the crossroads, ... where we need to win to stay alive.
— Randy Johnson
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Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else ... Fiction…
— Eudora Welty
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When you are having trouble making a decision or are at a crossroads in your life and are confused about which path…
— Jacklyn Zeman
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The Civil War defined us as what we are and it opened us to being what we became, good and bad things...…
— Shelby Foote
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I just get focused on whatever is in front of me. When I was filming Crossroads, it had all my focus. Now…
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