Candice Millard quotes
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“She (the First Lady, entering the room with her gravely wounded husband) would admit fear but not despair.”
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“Honor in the Dust is less about the freedom of the Philippines than the soul of the United States.”
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“With the Lincoln assassination, the South didnt feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the American people. He was trusted and respected by North and South, by freed slaves and former slave owners. Also by pioneers, which his parents had been, and by immigrants.”
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“I have always been interested in the idea of self-reinvention.”
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“More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel.”
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“When I began work on my first book, The River of Doubt, which tells the story of Theodore Roosevelts 1914 descent of an unmapped river in the Amazon rainforest, I thought of it as a tale of adventure, exploration and extraordinary courage.”
-- Candice Millard
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“There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first.”
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“Nihilism is not only despair and negation, but above all the desire to despair and to negate.”
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“You're entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy.”
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Source : Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.25, Simon and Schuster
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“It is foolish to think that we will enter heaven without entering into ourselves.”
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