The best luck always happens to people who don't need it.
Robert Penn WarrenTags: fate privilege need luck happenstance
After a great blow, or crisis, after the first shock and then after the nerves have stopped screaming and twitching, you settle down to the new condition of things and feel that all possibility of change has been used up. You adjust yourself, and are sure that the new equilibrium is for eternity. . . But if anything is certain it is that no story is ever over, for the story which we think is over is only a chapter in a story which will not be over, and it isn't the game that is over, it is just an inning, and that game has a lot more than nine innings. When the game stops it will be called on account of darkness. But it is a long day.
Robert Penn WarrenTags: change crisis resolution finality shock fluidity unexpected-changes life-events
I reckon I am a smart aleck, but it is just a way to pass the time.
Robert Penn WarrenTags: humor incorrigibility smart-aleck
For whatever you live is life.
Robert Penn WarrenTags: life
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 WarrenTags: flesh skepticism gullibility
Yeah, I'm Governor, Jack, and the trouble with governors is they think they got to keep their dignity. But listen here, there ain't anything worth doing a man can do and keep his dignity. Can you figure out a single thing you really please-God like to do you can do and keep your dignity? The human frame just ain't built that way.
Robert Penn WarrenTags: perception pride dignity
He would get up and go out into a world which seemed very unfamiliar, but with a tantalizing unfamiliarity like the world of boyhood to which an old man returns.
Robert Penn WarrenTags: perspective youth
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 WarrenTags: selfishness parenting
If you want him to do it, you've got to change the picture of the world inside his head.
Robert Penn WarrenTags: motivation visualization
History cannot give us a program for the future, but it can give us a fuller understanding of ourselves, and of our common humanity, so that we can better face the future.
Robert Penn WarrenTags: history
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