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I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of gr

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 process. – Shelby Foote

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I think that everything you do helps you to write if youre a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making you what you are. If you dont experience either one of those, youre being deprived of something. – Shelby Foote

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Success
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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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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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Poetry
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As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges. – Benjamin Franklin

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In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity. – Paulo Coelho

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There are many people in the world who really dont understand-or say they dont-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin! – John F. Kennedy

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