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"Most of my inspiration, if that's the word, came from books themselves."
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"You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
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"Life is the music of your soul, all you need to do is to listen hard."
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"Belief driven by determination is one key factor governing whether what you pursue becomes real or not."
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"History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this."
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"Open your eyes to what wonder exists in the world. You have within your the power to create the life you want."
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"It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking."
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"Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not."
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"Gloomy ones must learn to light the Fire of Inspiration " the Spark that will clear the Dark within."
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"The visions we offer our children shape the future. It _matters_ what those visions are. Often they become self-fulfilling prophecies. Dreams are maps."
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"Many men know the recipes of life, but only few go into the kitchen to cook it. Go make it happen!"
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"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."
War
"I don't want anything to do with anything mechanical between me and the paper, including a typewriter, and I don't even want a fountain pen between me and the paper."
Writing
"I took five years on the first volume, five years on the second volume, and ten years on the third volume."
Writing
"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."
Mistake
"Longevity conquers scandal every time."
Time
"Most of my inspiration, if that's the word, came from books themselves."
Inspirational
"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."
Home
"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."
Success
"Shiloh is a wonderfully dramatic battle. The leader of one side is killed, and the other one is going on to glory, and it was the first great battle. It lasted two days."
Leadership
"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."
Science
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