Shiloh Quotes

• There are a couple of roles I haven't played that I want to. I would love to play Shiloh.

  David Ogden Stiers

  Couple, Play, Roles

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• My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels.

  Shelby Foote

  Book, Successful, Firsts

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• Shiloh isn’t haunted – men are haunted. Shiloh doesn’t care.

  Thomas Harris

  Men, Care

  Thomas Harris (2009). “Red Dragon”, p.443, Penguin

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• France was a land, England was a people, but America, having about it still that quality of the idea, was harder to utter - it was the graves at Shiloh and the tired, drawn, nervous faces of its great men, and the country boys dying in the Argonne for a phrase that was empty before their bodies withered. It was a willingness of the heart.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Country, Tired, Heart

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew J. Bruccoli (1995). “The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection”, p.512, Simon and Schuster

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• Shiloh had as many casualties as Waterloo, and yet there were another 20 Waterloos to come.

  Bruce Catton

  War, History, Casualties

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• The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and Afghanistan, the great specialty of industry and technology has been the mass production of human corpses.

  Edward Abbey

  War, Technology, Dachau

  "A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto): Notes from a Secret Journal". Book by Edward Abbey (Chapter 11 "Money Et Cetera", p. 100), 1989.

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• …and I’m thinking how nothing is as simple as you guess-not right or wrong, not Judd Travers, not even me or this dog I got here. But the good part is I saved Shiloh and opened my eyes some. Now that ain’t bad for eleven.

  Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

  Dog, Eye, Simple

  Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Lois Lenski, Martin Luther King (Jr.), Ezra Bowen, Cynthia Rylant (2000). “Shiloh and related readings”

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• Angelina Jolie’s older brother James Haven, the one she made out with, has a license plate on his SUV that reads Shiloh. Maybe it’s not that weird. After all, he could be the father.

  Chelsea Handler

  Brother, Father, Suvs

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