A Rich Man's War And A Poor

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.

I Think That Everything You Do Helps You To Write If You're A Writer. Adversity And Success Both Contribute Largely To Making You What You Are. If You Don't Experience Either One Of Those, You're Being Deprived Of Something.

The Civil War Defined Us As What We Are And It Opened Us To Being What We Became, Good And Bad Things... It Was The Crossroads Of Our Being, And It Was A Hell Of A Crossroads.

Before The War It Was Always The United States *are*, After The War It Was The United States Is... It Made Us An Is.

North Was Only A Direction Indicated By A Compass--if A Man Had One, That Is, For Otherwise There Was No North Or South Or East Or West; There Was Only The Brooding Desolation.