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I prize the Depression, for instance, because I learned the value of things in the Depression that a way people who don't have to worry about such things never learned to prize it really, I believe.

I prize the Depression, for instance, because I learned the value of things in the Depression that a way people who don't have to worry about such things never learned to prize it really, I believe.

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Depression, Believe, People
Interview for the Academy of Achievement, Washington, D. C., June 18, 1999.

I never cared what kind of grade I got.

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Kind, Grades

And I really do think that the difficulty of research makes it more real to you than punching a thing to find out how many men were killed at this particular action.

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Real, Men, Thinking

Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from realm to realm we roam. Our fleets come loaded with every folly home.

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Passion, Home, Mind

A combination of all that was best in the gladdest days of the departing year.

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Happiness, Success, Years
Shelby Foote (1963). “The Civil War: a narrative”

Getting close to books, and spending time by myself, I was obliged to think about things I would never have thought about if I was busy romping around with a brother and sister.

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Brother, Book, Sister In Law

I took five years on the first volume, five years on the second volume, and ten years on the third volume.

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Second Chance, Years, Firsts

If you want to study writing, read Dickens

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Writing, Want, Study

I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry.

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Writing, Hands, Trying

I've never shown anybody a draft of anything.

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My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels.

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Book, Successful, Firsts

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