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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A dog is wiser than a woman; it does not bark at its master. ~Russian Proverb
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We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And that sometimes art can offer us more intense experiences of the world than life itself can. ~Anthony Doerr
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Nothing got without pains but an ill name and long nails. ~Scottish Proverb
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I had my nearest and most intimate glimpses of the presence of my Lord in those dread moments when musket, club or spear was being levelled at my life. ~John Gibson Paton
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"Look at that," she whispered, and then after a moment: "I'd like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around." ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Pure water is the world’s first and foremost medicine. ~Slovakian Proverb
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Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it. ~Oprah Winfrey
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A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ~Irish Proverb
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The teeth are smiling, but is the heart? ~African Proverb
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Activity breeds prosperity. ~Kurdish Proverb
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We learn little from victory, much from defeat. ~Japanese Proverb
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Mystery books. I must read a hundred a year. I just wish some of them were harder to figure out. ~Martin Cruz Smith
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If I die, I forgive you. If I live, we shall see. ~Spanish Proverb
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I want to write the sort the book that my people want to read, even if the market is small. ~Robert Dessaix
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It's American Alternative radio stations that bug me. We're considered Alternative, but don't expect us to be played next to Blink 182 and Offspring. We're hardly of that generation. ~Thurston Moore
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The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon... has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right. ~James Madison
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All I care is that my family, and my loved ones, understand me. Or that they understand me to a degree; I don't understand me very much. And I don't need the world to understand me. That is the most egocentric thing. ~Andrea Corr
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There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. ~Chinese Proverb
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All the seven deadly sins are self destroying, morbid appetites, but in their early stages at least, lust and gluttony, averice and sloth know some gratification, while anger and pride have power, even though that power eventually destroys itself. Envy is impotent, numbed with fear, never ceasing in its appetite, and it knows no gratification, but endless self torment. It has the ugliness of a trapped rat, which gnaws its own foot in an effort to escape. ~Angus Wilson
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Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf. ~Native American Porverb
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When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money. ~Imogen Cunningham
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One man's trash is another man's treasure. ~English Proverb
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years. ~Wendell Willkie
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Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters. ~African Proverb
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