A Place to Come To Quotes

“Dying--shucks! If you kin handle the living, what's to be afraid of the dying?”
― Robert Penn Warren, A Place to Come To

“I remember distinctly the retarded, inexorable grind of the gravel under the iron tires, a sound that seemed to declare some irreversible process in which we were trapped, as though we were coffee beans dropped in a coffee grinder as big as the world.”
― Robert Penn Warren, A Place to Come To

“We all knew the great lesson of history; I from reading it and they from living it. And the lesson is: it is more blessed to kill than to be killed.”
― Robert Penn Warren, A Place to Come To

“I know nothing I’m doing is important,' he said. 'Sure, I’m just a waste product of history. Maybe nothing I’m doing is even real, after all. But I was born right here, in this old house, and I look out the window and know what I’m seeing, and I know some people I like to be with, and I like what I do all day long, and maybe that’s all that realness is, anyway”
― Robert Penn Warren, A Place to Come To

“But, the stultifying lingo aside, the question I raise is a vital one for us all, we are all stuck with trying to find the meaning of our lives, and the only thing we have to work on, or with, is our past.”
― Robert Penn Warren, A Place to Come To