Quote by Shelby Foote
A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a librar

A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library. – Shelby Foote

Other quotes by Shelby Foote

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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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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Science
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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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Other Quotes from
Libraries
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If I were founding a university I would begin with a smoking room; next a dormitory; and then a decent reading room and a library. After that, if I still had more money that I couldnt use, I would hire a professor and get some text books. – Stephen Leacock

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Libraries

A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone. – Jo Godwin

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Libraries

A library is thought in cold storage. – Herbert Samuel

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Libraries

Libraries: The medicine chest of the soul. – Library at Thebes, inscription over the door

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Libraries

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To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world – that I am able to change it in positive ways. – Maxine Hong Kingston

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