"I reckon I am a smart aleck, but……" — Robert Penn Warren

"I reckon I am a smart aleck, but it is just a way to pass the time."

— Robert Penn Warren

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76 Quotes by Robert Penn Warren

Robert Penn Warren has 76 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Your business as a writer is not to illustrate virtue but to show how a fellow may move toward it…
The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life.
What if angry vectors veer Round your sleeping head, and form. There's never need to fear Violence of the poor…
Perhaps he had to be close in order to keep a reason for the things he did. To make the…
How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.
How life is strange and changeful, and the crystal is in the steel at the point of fracture, and the…
Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about…
The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.
The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the…
Maybe a man has to sell his soul to get the power to do good.
You don’t choose a story, it chooses you.
There is no country but the heart.

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During history class, our teacher asked a classmate: Do you know Rizal? Our smart aleck classmate answered, Maam, not personally. — Unknown Author

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