Caleb Carr Quotes

Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses

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I'm still a firm believer that we were definitely put here to use our minds, and that is what makes us different. And that that's the key. If there is anything that is going to stop mankind from being such a beastly, destructive creature, it is reason.

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[Some question the value of accounts that have been quickly turned around.] Memoirs in general aren't of any quality or use until enough time has passed that somebody can put some perspective on what they went through,.. There's no way to give this war a chance to mean anything because we're judging it so quickly.

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In rooting around for something to grab onto, I latched onto the past and people in the past who I felt were strong, actively ethical characters.

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I feel horribly vindicated. Three thousand people died who didn't have to die.

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She has that quality, does the Hudson, as I imagine all great rivers do: the deep, abiding sense that those activities what take place on shore among human beings are of the moment, passing, and aren't the stories by way of which the greater tale of this planet will, in the end, be told.

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