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Stan D. Jensen

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Stan D. Jensen received his bachelor's degree in history and his master's degree in education from the University of Northern Iowa. His short stories have been published in the magazine The Backstretch. "Red Otter" is his second historical novel. "Ethan's Peach Tree," a novel of the Civil War, was published in 2012. Mr. Jensen lives in Clinton, Iowa, and continues to write.

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	First-Time Starter: #1 in the First-Time Starter Trilogy 4.41 avg rating — 230 ratings — 3 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
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Lee was not executed after the Civil War for a reason rec...

Lee was not executed after the Civil War for a reason recognized by both the people of the South and the North...the General was a good and decent man. Yet, with but a brief review of human history, a hard truth becomes undeniable...that it's good and decent men who do the most damage.

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“All stories come from the writer's heart, and all hearts speak the same language, a wordless language ancient as time, and for the writer, this is the eternal struggle, to translate the wordless into words.”
― Stan D. Jensen, Ethan's Peach Tree

tags: philosophy-of-writing

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“It is the fate of the innocent to suffer.”
― Virginia Woolf

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“Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.”
― Lloyd Alexander, The Black Cauldron

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“Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”
― William Blake

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“In the final exam in the Chaucer course we were asked why he used certain verbal devices, certain adjectives, why he had certain characters behave in certain ways. And I wrote, 'I don't think Chaucer had any idea why he did any of these things. That isn't the way people write.'

I believe this as strongly now as I did then. Most of what is best in writing isn't done deliberately.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Circle of Quiet

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