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"I was a big Nancy Drew reader. Nancy figures it out. Case closed."
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"There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it."
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"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."
"Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book."
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"The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story."
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"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."
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"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."
"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."
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"We go in to liberate Cuba, but Cuba still isn't free; we don't really think through what we'll do after the initial treaty is signed, but we're still occupying. There's chaos and torture and finally an outcry."
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"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."
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