"I heard somebody open and shut the gate to the barn lot, but I didn't look around. If I didn't look around it would not be true that somebody had opened the gate with the creaky hinges, and that is a wonderful principle for a man to get hold of... What you don't know know don't hurt you, for it ain't real. They called that Idealism in my book I had when I was in college, and after I got hold of that principle I became an Idealist... 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

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“Drafting is like painting the Golden Gate Bridge.The closer you get to the end, the more you start to worry about the beginning.”
“The Tea Party doesn't like politicians.”
“You learn more doing than doing training.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I like the trivial, vulgar and exalted.”
“You have to do bad things in order to become a hero. You have to make sacrifices.”
“I have really sinned. I am going to pause now, and sit here on the mound repenting in deepest shame...”
“My views about the safety of Jews in the world have not been changed by the work on the Dreyfus affair or, for that matter, by the work I did on Franz Kafka for the book on him I published a year before the Dreyfus book appeared.”

Source : "Questions & Answers: A Conversation With Louis Begley". Interview with David B. Green, www.haaretz.com. January 3, 2010.
“Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space. Invite one to stay.”

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