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

Other quotes by Shelby Foote

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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Shelby Foote
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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

Category:
Poetry
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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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Other Quotes from
Libraries
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A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them. – Lemony Snicket

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Libraries

The library lets you borrow the beauty and keep the knowledge. – Author Unknown

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Libraries

The dust and odour of ancient libraries, the gloom of those crypts of literature, have… all the charm of freshest images and freshest poetry. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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Libraries

A mans library is a sort of harem. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Libraries

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For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing. – Thomas Carlyle

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The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it. – Daniel Webster

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I dont want to be Mr. Romantic Leading Man. I dont want to be the Dance Dude. I dont want to be the Action Guy. If I had to do any one of those all my life, itd drive me crazy. – Patrick Swayze

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I am very conscious of who I am as an artist and as an inspirational person. – R. Kelly

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