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1. "We have more to fear from the opinions of our friends than the bayonets of our enemies." Politician turned Union General Nathaniel Banks, in plea he couldn't abandon an untenable position." ~ Shelby Foote
2. "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
3. "I prize the Depression, for instance, because I learned the value of things in the Depression that a way people who don't have to worry about such things never learned to prize it really, I believe." ~ Shelby Foote
4. "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." ~ Shelby Foote
5. "A visitor asked Lincoln what good news he could take home from an audience with the august executive. The president spun a story about a machine that baffled a chess champion by beating him thrice. The stunned champ cried while inspecting the machine, "There's a man in there!"Lincoln's good news, he confided from the heights of leadership, was that there was in fact a man in there." ~ Shelby Foote
6. "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
7. "Longevity conquers scandal every time." ~ Shelby Foote
8. "And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words of the Civil War." ~ Shelby Foote
9. "Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from realm to realm we roam. Our fleets come loaded with every folly home." ~ Shelby Foote
10. "I'm crazy about Grant: his character, his nature, his science in fighting and everything else. But I don't 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
11. "I never cared what kind of grade I got." ~ Shelby Foote
12. "I took five years on the first volume, five years on the second volume, and ten years on the third volume." ~ Shelby Foote
13. "I've never shown anybody a draft of anything." ~ Shelby Foote
14. "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
15. "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." ~ Shelby Foote
16. "A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library." ~ Shelby Foote
17. "On Lee as commander: "He had a cheerful dignity and could praise them (his men) without seeming to court their favor." ~ Shelby Foote
18. "I abhor the idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to tears." ~ Shelby Foote
19. "He is the kind of person I should expect to rescue one from a mad dog at any risk but then insist on a stoical indifference to the fright afterward." Jefferson Davis's future wife describing him at first meeting." ~ Shelby Foote

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