Shelby Foote Quotes

• People want to know why the South is so interested in the Civil War. I had maybe, it's a rough guess, about fifty fistfights in my life. Out of those fifty fistfights, the ones that I had the most vivid memory of were the ones I lost. I think that's one reason why the South remembers the war more than the North does.

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  Memories, War, Loss

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Before the war it was always the United States *are*, after the war it was the United States is... it made us an is.

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  War, History, United States

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• People make a grievous error thinking that a list of facts is the truth. Facts are just the bare bones out of which truth is made.

  Shelby Foote

  Thinking, Errors, People

  Interview for the Academy of Achievement, Washington, D. C., June 18, 1999.

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• La Guerra Civil nos definió como lo que somos y nos abrió a ser lo que llegamos a ser, cosas buenas y malas... Fue la encrucijada de nuestro ser, y fue una encrucijada infernal.

  Shelby Foote

  War, Hell, Crossroads

  Shelby Foote (1995). “The Beleaguered City: The Vicksburg Campaign, December 1862-July 1863”

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• Una universidad no es más que un conjunto de edificios reunidos en torno a una biblioteca.

  Shelby Foote

  Educativo, Libro, Lectura

  North Carolina Libraries, Vol. 51-54, 1993.

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• If you want to study writing, read Dickens. That's how to study writing, or Faulkner, or D.H. Lawrence, or John Keats. They can teach you everything you need to know about writing.

  Shelby Foote

  Teaching, Writing, Needs

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• When you grow up in a totally segregated society, where everybody around you believes that segregation is proper, you have a hard time. You can't believe how much it's a part of your thinking.

  Shelby Foote

  Growing Up, Believe, Hard Times

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• Lo que quiero decir es que el novelista y el historiador buscan lo mismo: la verdad -no una verdad diferente: la misma verdad-, sólo que llegan a ella, o intentan llegar a ella, por caminos diferentes. Tanto si el acontecimiento tuvo lugar en un mundo hoy convertido en polvo, conservado por los documentos y evaluado por la erudición, como si ocurrió en la imaginación, conservado por la memoria y destilado por el proceso creativo, ambos quieren contarnos cómo fue: recrearlo, con sus distintos métodos, y hacerlo revivir en el mundo que les rodea.

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  Memories, Dust, Imagination

  Shelby Foote (2011). “The Civil War: A Narrative: Volume 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville”, p.815, Vintage

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• As a Southerner I would have to say that one of the main importances of the War is that Southerners have a sense of defeat which none of the rest of the country has.

  Shelby Foote

  Country, War, History

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• 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

  Mistake, Thinking, Shortcuts

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• A rich man's war and a poor man's fight.

  Shelby Foote

  Guerra, Lucha, Hombres

  Shelby Foote (1986). “The Civil War, a Narrative: Fredericksburg to Meridian”, Vintage

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• Aborrezco la idea de un mundo perfecto. Me aburriría hasta las lágrimas.

  Shelby Foote

  Ideas, Perfect, Bored

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• I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making you what you are. If you don't experience either one of those, you're being deprived of something.

  Shelby Foote

  Writing, Adversity, Thinking

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• A fact is not a truth until you love it.

  Shelby Foote

  Hechos

  Shelby Foote, William C. Carter (1989). “Conversations with Shelby Foote”, p.248, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Longevity conquers scandal every time.

  Shelby Foote

  Time, Scandal, Conquer

  Shelby Foote (1992). “Jordan County: A Landscape in Narrative”, Vintage

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• Generally the first week in September brings the hottest weather of the year, and this was no exception. Overhead the fans turned slow, their paddle blades stirring the air up close to the ceiling but nowheres else.

  Shelby Foote

  Years, Weather, Air

  Shelby Foote (2011). “Follow Me Down: A Novel”, p.3, Vintage

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• But the same thing was true in the army. You slept in a barracks with all kinds of people of every nationality, every trade, every character and quality you can imagine, and that was a good experience.

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  Character, Army, People

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• North was only a direction indicated by a compass--if a man had one, that is, for otherwise there was no north or south or east or west; there was only the brooding desolation.

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  Men, East, West

  Shelby Foote (2011). “The Civil War: A Narrative: Volume 2: Fredericksburg to Meridian”, p.128, Vintage

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• Grant was something rare in that or any war. He could learn from experience.

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  War, Learning Experience, Grants

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• No quiero tener nada que ver con nada mecánico entre el papel y yo, incluida una máquina de escribir, y ni siquiera quiero una pluma estilográfica entre el papel y yo.

  Shelby Foote

  Typewriters, Paper, Want

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• I've never known, at least a modern historical instance, where the truth wasn't superior to distortion in every way.

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  Historical, Way, Modern

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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.

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  Writing, Interesting, Used

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• Y soy un escritor lento: quinientas, seiscientas palabras es un buen día. Por eso tardé veinte años en escribir ese millón y medio de palabras de la Guerra Civil.

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  War, Writing, Good Day

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• Most of my inspiration, if that's the word, came from books themselves.

  Shelby Foote

  Book, Inspiration, Ifs

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• Writing is very hard work and knowing what you're doing the whole time.

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  Hard Work, Writing, Knowing

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