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Shelby Foote Quotes

1916–2005 United States

Shelby Dade Foote, Jr. (17 November 1916 – 27 June 2005) was an author and historian of the American Civil War. A native of Greenville, Mississippi, Foote left college early to enlist in the US Army in 1940.

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A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library. The library is the university.

People make a grievous error thinking that a list of facts is the truth. Facts are just the bare bones out of which truth is made.

I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value.

There’s nothing better for a writer than to be reluctant to go to bed, anxious to wake up and start again. That’s living. That’s what I felt.

Any understanding of this nation has to be based, and I mean really based, on an understanding of the Civil War. … It was the crossroads of our being, and it was a hell of a crossroads.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Shelby Foote (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.