People make a grievous error thinking that a list of facts is the truth. Facts are just the bare bones out of which truth is made.
But the same thing was true in the army. You slept in a barracks with all kinds of people of every nationality, every trade, every character and qual… - Shelby Foote
But the same thing was true in the army. You slept in a barracks with all kinds of people of every nationality, every trade, every character and qual…
- Shelby Foote
Before the war it was always the United States *are*, after the war it was the United States is... it made us an is. - Shelby Foote
Before the war it was always the United States *are*, after the war it was the United States is... it made us an is.
A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library. - Shelby Foote
A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.
Grant was something rare in that or any war. He could learn from experience. - Shelby Foote
Grant was something rare in that or any war. He could learn from experience.
I don't want anything to do with anything mechanical between me and the paper, including a typewriter, and I don't even want a fountain pen between m… - Shelby Foote
I don't want anything to do with anything mechanical between me and the paper, including a typewriter, and I don't even want a fountain pen between m…
People make a grievous error thinking that a list of facts is the truth. Facts are just the bare bones out of which truth is made. - Shelby Foote
If you want to study writing, read Dickens. That's how to study writing, or Faulkner, or D.H. Lawrence, or John Keats. They can teach you everything … - Shelby Foote
If you want to study writing, read Dickens. That's how to study writing, or Faulkner, or D.H. Lawrence, or John Keats. They can teach you everything …
I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value, but to have someone else to point out your mistakes is a shortcut of the… - Shelby Foote
I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value, but to have someone else to point out your mistakes is a shortcut of the…
As a Southerner I would have to say that one of the main importances of the War is that Southerners have a sense of defeat which none of the rest of … - Shelby Foote
As a Southerner I would have to say that one of the main importances of the War is that Southerners have a sense of defeat which none of the rest of …
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