"A man who has been shot at is a new realist, and what do you say to a realist when the war is a war of ideals?"

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Source : Jeff Shaara, Michael Shaara (2012). “The Civil War Trilogy 3-Book Boxset (Gods and Generals, The Killer Angels, and The Last Full Measure)”, p.435, Ballantine Books

Michael Shaara

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“Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don't know why this one is different, but it is. You don't know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can't stop thinking about it.”
“God alone is satisfied with what He is and can proclaim: "I am what I am." Unlike God, man strives with all his might to be what he is not. He incessantly proclaims: "I am what I am not.”
“Few have greater riches than the joy That comes to us in visions, In dreams which nobody can take away.”
“If anything, it's a little intimidating because there's usually a lot of brilliant work and a lot of brilliant ideas out there that you wish you had thought of, or that you just admire for the originality of it or the difference from what you've been thinking of.”

Source : "Director Chris Wedge Talks EPIC, the Road to Finally Getting a Greenlight, the Oscars, Branching into Live-Action with MONSTER TRUCKS, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 15, 2013.
“I had been thinking about the question, "What do I love about America?" I kept coming back to this idea of community and home, which already obsessed me in my work. But I couldn't quite figure out how to lead beyond my immediate experience. Then I was just standing at the kitchen sink, and I watched the sun rise, and I thought, "How many hundreds of thousands of people are watching the same sun rise right now?" I just knew the poem would go from that line.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I touched Roger's bat and held it to my heart. My bat will lie next to his. I'm damn proud of that.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It is my opinion that a story worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.”
“A man shares his days with hunger, thirst, and cold, with the good times and the bad, and the first part of being a man is to understand that.”

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