141 Quotes by David Grann


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    If someone told me I had to stop writing stories, that would be the end of me.

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    To be honest, I used to always procrastinate when I write. I mean, I love writing, but I hate it.

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    I was a schoolteacher; I taught seventh and eighth grade, and I tried to write fiction on the side.

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    I tried a few grad school programs because I didn't know how to make it... Eventually, I was desperate for a job, and there was a new newspaper opening up in Washington, D.C., called 'The Hill.' Even though my interest in politics wasn't huge, they gave me a job as a copy editor.

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    Most of Gingrich's moderate positions are rooted in a realpolitik that transcends ideology.

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    In Brazil, the history of the interaction between blancos and indios - whites and Indians - often reads like an extended epitaph. Tribes were wiped out by disease and massacres; languages and songs were obliterated.

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    One of the things I believe strongly in is developing institutions - legal, press, bureaucracies, academies - that are rooted in the pursuit of impartial truth. That aren't simply just bent to partisan ends or are corrupted for the powerful or for other ulterior motives.

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    I spend my life mostly disproving conspiracies.

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