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“You know, there's that silly saying 'We're born alone and we die alone' -it's nonsense. We're surrounded at birth and surrounded at death. It is in between that we're alone.”
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Tom Rachman
#Silly Quotes
#Birth Quotes
#Nonsense Quotes
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“Journalists who are devoted to strictly factual reporting take particular pleasure from satirical news outlets that have the liberty to laugh and even mock the hypocrisy that reporters and editors must simply observe without comment.”
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Tom Rachman
#Editors Quotes
#Laughing Quotes
#Hypocrisy Quotes
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“Many things embarrass me, but reading isnt one of them. Im not ashamed of my slightly weird collection of prison memoirs. Nor the flaky meditation books. After all, I can pretend I never read those.”
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Tom Rachman
#Book Quotes
#Reading Quotes
#Meditation Quotes
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“The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer.”
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Tom Rachman
#Training Quotes
#Fiction Quotes
#Hours Quotes
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“A common defense among obituary-fanciers such as myself is that the obit is not about death at all. It is about life. This is true since an article about the condition of deadness would make for turgid reading at best.”
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Tom Rachman
#Reading Quotes
#Defense Quotes
#Common Quotes
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“People, it turns out, aren't a product of their own time. They're a product of the time before theirs”
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Tom Rachman
#People Quotes
#Turns Quotes
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“Remembering is the most overrated thing. Forgetting is far superior.”
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Tom Rachman
Source : Tom Rachman (2014). “The Rise & Fall of Great Powers: A Novel”, p.237, Dial Press
#Remember Quotes
#Forget Quotes
#Overrated Quotes
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“We enjoy this illusion of continuity and we call it memory. Which explains, perhaps, why our worst fear isn't the end of life, but the end of memories”
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Tom Rachman
#Memories Quotes
#Illusion Quotes
#End Of Life Quotes
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“Basically, financial reporting is this sinking hole at the centre of journalism. You start by swimming around it until finally, reluctantly, you can't fight the pull anymore and you get sucked down the drain into the biz pages.”
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Tom Rachman
#Swimming Quotes
#Fighting Quotes
#Pages Quotes
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“Anything that's worth anything is complicated.”
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Tom Rachman
Source : Tom Rachman (2010). “The Imperfectionists: A Novel”, p.260, Dial Press
#Complicated Quotes
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“Our worst fear isn't the end of life but the end of memories.”
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Tom Rachman
#Memories Quotes
#End Of Life Quotes
#Ends Quotes
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“Here is a fact: nothing in all civilization has been as productive as ludicrous ambition. Whatever its ills, nothing has created more. Cathedrals, sonatas, encyclopedias: love of God was not behind them, nor love of life. But the love of man to be worshiped by man.”
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Tom Rachman
#Ambition Quotes
#Love Life Quotes
#Men Quotes
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“During my past career as a journalist, I relished writing obits and equally dreaded phoning relatives for the necessary facts. But to my surprise and great relief, they often wanted to talk - they wanted their recently deceased loved ones recorded in print.”
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Tom Rachman
#Writing Quotes
#Past Quotes
#Careers Quotes
