Robert Warren Quotes (8 Quotes)

I'd give him a grade of C-plus or B-minus overall.

Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. They're inexpensive and easy to procure.

There is nothing more alone than being in a car at night in the rain. I was in the car. And I was glad of it. Between one point on the map and another point on the map, there was the being alone in the car in the rain. They say you are not you except in terms of relation to other people. If there weren't any other people there wouldn't be any you because what you do which is what you are, only has meaning in relation to other people. That is a very comforting thought when you are in the car in the rain at night alone, for then you aren't you, and not being you or anything, you can really lie back and get some rest. It is a vacation from being you. There is only the flow of the motor under you foot spinning that frail thread of sound out of its metal guy like a spider, that filament, that nexus, which isn't really there, between the you which you have just left in one place and the you which you will be where you get to the other place.

The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, Oh, just let me enjoy the poem.

This is not remarkable, for, as we know, reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events. We seem here to have a paradox that the reality of an event, which is not real in itself, arises f

There were decisions made the last four years that I feel have not been in the best interests of Grand Haven citizens. Grand Haven doesn't deserve four more years of similar decisions.

In a lot of cases . . . the CEO does get a disproportionate amount of credit.

More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past