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• Just tell 'em you're gonna soak the fat boys and forget the rest of the tax stuff...Willie, make 'em cry, make 'em laugh, make 'em mad, even mad at you. Stir them up and they'll love it and come back for more, but, for heaven's sakes, don't try to improve their minds.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Boys, Mad, Laughing

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• In one deep sense, novels are concealed autobiography. I don't mean that you are telling facts about yourself, but you are trying to find out what you really think or who you are.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Escribir, Significar, Pensar

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• The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Writing, Confusion, Ordinary

  Robert Penn Warren (1989). “New and selected essays”, Random House Inc

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• There is nothing more alone than being in a car at night in the rain.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Rain, Night, Car

  Robert Penn Warren (2006). “All the King's Men”, p.192, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• El poema... es un pequeño mito de la capacidad del hombre para dar sentido a la vida. Y al final, el poema no es algo que vemos, sino una luz que nos permite ver, y lo que vemos es la vida.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Meaningful, Writing, Men

  1958 In the Saturday Review, 22 Mar.

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• A symbol serves to combine heart and intellect.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Heart, Intellect, Symbols

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• I longed to know the world's name.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Names, World, Knows

  Robert Penn Warren, John Burt (1998). “The Collected Poems of Robert Penn Warren”, p.340, LSU Press

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• Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history is the big myth we live, and in our living, constantly remake.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Inspiración, motivación, historia

  Cleanth Brooks, Robert Penn Warren, James A. Grimshaw (1998). “Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren: A Literary Correspondence”, p.15, University of Missouri Press

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• There was nothing particularly wrong with them; they were just the ordinary garden variety of human garbage.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Garden, Ordinary, Garbage

  Robert Penn Warren (2006). “All the King's Men”, p.458, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Tell me a story of deep delight.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Stories, Delight, Storytelling

  Robert Penn Warren, John Burt (1998). “The Collected Poems of Robert Penn Warren”, p.267, LSU Press

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• ...a man does not die for words. He dies for his relation to them.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Men, Doe, Relation

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• Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something (All The King's Men)

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  Reyes, Hombres, Pecado

  Robert Penn Warren (2006). “All the King's Men”, p.235, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Meaningful, Men, Poetry

  1958 In the Saturday Review, 22 Mar.

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• They say you are not you except in terms of relation to other people. If there weren't any other people there wouldn't be any you because what you do, which is what you are, only has meaning in relation to other people.

  Robert Penn Warren

  People, Relation, Term

  Robert Penn Warren (2006). “All the King's Men”, p.192, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• For whatever you live is life.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Robert Penn Warren (2006). “All the King's Men”, p.359, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• America was based on a big promise--a great big one: the Declaration of Independence. When you have to live with that in the house, that's quite a problem--particularly when you've got to make money and get ahead, open world markets, do all the things you have to, raise your children, and so forth. America is stuck with its self-definition put on paper in 1776, and that was just like putting a burr under the metaphysical saddle of America--you see, that saddle's going to jump now and then and it pricks.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Children, America, Self

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• Nobody had ever told me that anything could be like this.

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• Most writers are trying to find what they think or feel. . . not simply working from the given, but toward the given, saying the unsayable and steadily asking, "What do I really feel about this?

  Robert Penn Warren

  Thinking, Trying, Asking

  Robert Penn Warren, Floyd C. Watkins, John T. Hiers (1980). “Robert Penn Warren talking: interviews, 1950-1978”, Random House (NY)

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• Your business as a writer is not to illustrate virtue but to show how a fellow may move toward it or away from it.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Moving, Vices, May

  Robert Penn Warren, Floyd C. Watkins, John T. Hiers (1980). “Robert Penn Warren talking: interviews, 1950-1978”, Random House (NY)

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• 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

  Real, Doe, Goes On

  Robert Penn Warren (2006). “All the King's Men”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Writing, Scratches, Annoying

  1969 In the New York Times, 16 Dec.

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• In America they have to know just what you are-- novelist, poet, playwright... Well, I've been all of them... I think poems and novels and stories spring from the same seed. It's not like, say, playing polo and knitting.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Spring, Thinking, Knitting

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• 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

  Mother, Father, Trying

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• Después de mucho tiempo Annie ya no era una niña. Era una niña grande y yo estaba tan enamorado de ella que vivía en un sueño. En el sueño mi corazón parecía a punto de estallar, pues parecía que el mundo entero estaba dentro de él hinchándose para salir y ser el mundo. Pero aquel verano llegó a su fin. Pasó el tiempo y no ocurrió nada de lo que en un momento habíamos estado tan seguros de que ocurriría.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Summer, Girl, Dream

  Robert Penn Warren (2006). “All the King's Men”, p.60, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Politics is a matter of choices, and a man doesn't set up the choices himself. And there is always a price to make a choice. You know that. You've made a choice, and you know how much it cost you. There is always a price.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Men, Choices, Cost

  Robert Penn Warren (1946). “All the king's men”

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