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While traveling last week I heard Diane Rehm interviewing Colum McCann on her NPR radio program and discussing this book. Although the events of 9/11 were only mentioned in one short reference in the book, the author admitted that the book was defini
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“It's hard to make something that's interesting. It's really, really hard. It's like a law of nature, a law of aerodynamics, that anything that's written or anything that's created wants to be mediocre. The natural state of all writing is mediocrity... So what it takes to make anything more than mediocre is such an act of will...”
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“I never read a book before reviewing it: it prejudices a man so.”
― Bon-mots of Sydney Smith and R. Brinsley Sheridan 1893 [Leather Bound]
― Bon-mots of Sydney Smith and R. Brinsley Sheridan 1893 [Leather Bound]
“When the Lord finished the world, he pronounced it good. That is what I said about my first work, too. But Time, I tell you, Time takes the confidence out of these incautious opinions. It is more than likely that He thinks about the world, now, pretty much as I think about the Innocents Abroad. The fact is, there is a trifle too much water in both.”
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“When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.”
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“Whenever people say, 'We mustn't be sentimental,' you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add, 'We must be realistic,' they mean they are going to make money out of it.”
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