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Bruce Duffy

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in Washington, D.C., The United States

June 09, 1951

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Bruce Duffy is the author of the autobiographical novel Last Comes the Egg (1997), and the 2011 novel, Disaster Was My God, based on the life and work of the poet Arthur Rimbaud. An only child raised in a Catholic middle-class family in suburban Maryland, Duffy sees the 1962 death of his mother—essentially by medical malpractice— as what pushed him to be a writer. Duffy graduated from the University of Maryland in 1973, and has hitchhiked twice across the United States, worked construction, washed dishes, hopped freight trains with hoboes, and reported stories that have taken him to Haiti, Bosnia, and Taliban Afghanistan. Today he lives just outside Washington, D.C., works as a speechwriter, is married to a psychotherapist, and has two grow ...more

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	The World as I Found It 4.22 avg rating — 668 ratings — published 1987 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Disaster Was My God: A Novel of the Outlaw Life of Arthur Rimbaud 3.67 avg rating — 215 ratings — published 2010 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Last Comes the Egg 3.72 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 1997 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ein kleine Dosis Freiheit 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	[The World as I Found It (New York Review Books Classics)] [By: Duffy, Bruce] [October, 2010] by Bruce Duffy, Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Odd how the impossible negation of death — the sudden absence of life where once there was promise — can stimulate an early philosophical bent.”
― Bruce Duffy, The World as I Found It

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“But just as difficult and important as making judgments ... is the art of withholding judgment -- of not precipitously surrendering to the ego's gluttonous caviling to be right, so it could eat and spew more. For surely it was folly to plow through the world simply to be through it.”
― Bruce Duffy, The World as I Found It

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“No one could have been more warlike in his opposition to war.”
― Bruce Duffy, The World As I Found It

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