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"I was a big Nancy Drew reader. Nancy figures it out. Case closed."
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"I find it's impossible for me to read Proust."
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"I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately."
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"Not a single person I named hadn't already been named at least a half-dozen times and wasn't already on he blacklist."
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"I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage."
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"What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come."
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"By reading Huckleberry Finn I felt I was able to justify my act of going into the mountain forest at night and sleeping among the trees with a sense of security which I could never find indoors."
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"And so we have to be careful with looking at additional stimulus that we don't provoke an increase in the bond rate and then offset a lot of the stimulus we've already got."
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"Whether the medium is ready for consumers is better judged by those consumers. I sometimes read online - but not often. The stigma is attached to pay scales. Much online publication is no pay or small pay."
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"Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write."
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"Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things."
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"I seem to have no problem revealing my crush on the man who murdered Lincoln."
Man
"While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
Happiness
"I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't without pretense. There was this idea in the town that if something was European it would be good."
People
"Part of the success of This American Life, I think, is due to the fact that none of us sound like we should be on the radio. We don't sound professional; we sound like people you would know."
Success
"Not that I want the current president killed. I will, for the record and for the FBI agent assigned to read this and make sure I mean no harm, clearly state that while I am obsessed with death, I am against it."
Death
"History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting."
History
"I hated the lost colony; in second grade, we were doing American History, and they said, We don't know what happened to them. That drove me nuts. That lost colony drove me crazy."
History
"I loved that these two guys argued with each other as if movies actually mattered. Nobody I knew talked about movies that way, but Siskel and Ebert took each movie as it came and talked about whether it was a success on its own terms."
Movies
"I discovered that Robert Todd Lincoln was there for each of the first three assassinations. I wanted to write about the Lincoln Memorial, so when I found out he had attended its dedication, that helped focus it further."
History
"I was a big Nancy Drew reader. Nancy figures it out. Case closed."
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