My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels. ~Shelby Foote
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The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched. ~Seneca
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Each person we meet has the potential to teach us something. ~John C. Maxwell
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We need ghost stories because we, in fact, are the ghosts. ~Stephen King
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