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Robert Penn Warren Quotes

Robert Penn Warren quotes

American Novelist, Writer, Poet April 24, 1905 – September 15, 1989

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So I pulled the sun screen down and squinted and put the throttle to the floor. And kept on moving west. For West is where we all plan to go some day. It is where you go when the land gives out and the oldfield pines encroach. It is where you go when you get the letter saying: Flee, all is discovered. IT is where you go when you look down at the blade in your hand and see the blood on it. It is where you go when you are told that you are a bubble on the tide of empire. It is where you... Robert Penn Warren
When you get born your father and mother lost something out of themselves, and they are going to bust a ham trying to get it back, and you are it. They know they can't get it all back but they will get as big a chunk out of you as they can. Robert Penn Warren
Process as process is neither morally good nor morally bad. We may judge results but not process. The morally bad agent may perform the deed which is good. The morally good agent may perform the deed which is bad. Maybe a man has to sell his soul to get the power to do good. Robert Penn Warren
[T]here is nothing brighter, crisper, more antiseptic, and cooler than a really first-rate corner drugstore on a hot summer night. If Anne Stanton is inside the door and the air conditioning is working. Robert Penn Warren
There was only the sound of the July-flies, which seems to be inside your head like it is the grind and whirr of the springs and cogs which are you and which will not stop no matter what you say until they are good and ready. Robert Penn Warren
I suppose that Willie had his natural quota of ordinary suspicion and caginess, but those things tend to evaporate when what people tell you is what you want to hear. Robert Penn Warren
What you don't know don't hurt you, for it ain't real. They called that Idealism in my book I had when I was in college, and after I got hold of that principle I became an Idealist. I was a brass-bound Idealist in those days. If you are an Idealist it does not matter what you do or what goes on around you because it isn't real anyway. Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren quote: "It is a human defect--to try to know one's self by the self of..."
It is a human defect--to try to know one's self by the self of another. Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren quote: "I've been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but..."
I've been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing was always first. It's a kind of pain I can't do without. Robert Penn Warren
[A]nd soon now we shall go out of the house and go into the convulsion of the world, out of history into history and the awful responsibility of Time. Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren quote: "Goodness . . . You got to make it out of badness . . . Because..."
Goodness . . . You got to make it out of badness . . . Because there isn't anything else to make it out of. Robert Penn Warren
We get very few of he true images in our heads of the kind I am talking about, the kind which become more and more vivid for us as if the passage of the years did not obscure their reality but, year by year, drew off another veil to expose a meaning which we had only dimly surmised at first. Very probably the last veil will not be removed, for there are not enough years, but the brightness of the image increases and our conviction increases that the brightness is meaning, or the legend of... Robert Penn Warren
For either killing or creating may be a crime punishable by death, and the death always comes by the criminal's own hand and every man is suicide. If a man knew how to live he would never die. Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren quote: "I reckon I am a smart aleck, but it is just a way to pass the..."
I reckon I am a smart aleck, but it is just a way to pass the time. Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren quote: "She lifted her sewing and bit off the thread in the way women..."
She lifted her sewing and bit off the thread in the way women do to make your flesh crawl. Robert Penn Warren

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