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Im crazy about Grant: his character, his nature, his science in fi

Im crazy about Grant: his character, his nature, his science in fighting and everything else. But I dont like the idea that he never accepted the blame for anything, always found someone else to blame for any mistake that was ever made, including blaming Prentiss for Shiloh. – Shelby Foote

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And Im a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. Thats the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words of the Civil War. – Shelby Foote

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War
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Shelby Foote
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I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting than poetry, including the rhythms of prose. – Shelby Foote

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Poetry
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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 usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry. – Shelby Foote

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I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions – adding that no general proposition is worth a damn. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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The further a mathematical theory is developed, the more harmoniously and uniformly does its construction proceed, and unsuspected relations are disclosed between hitherto separated branches of the science. – David Hilbert

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I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other peoples writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do not take your research from other peoples fiction. Just dont. – Laurell K. Hamilton

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Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientists search for truth. – Irving Langmuir

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I hope The Voice has a fifteen-year run, dont get me wrong. But I come from nothing, and maybe its the Irish in me, but my attitude is always like, Theyll figure me out soon. – Carson Daly

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