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I think that everything you do helps you to write if youre a write

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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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

Category:
Poetry
Author
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

Category:
War
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Shelby Foote
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After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise. – Shirley Jones

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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Id rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road. – Kevyn Aucoin

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The secret of success is sincerity. – Jean Giraudoux

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