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“It wasn't that I had gotten it right . . . but that I had gotten true.”

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Rick Bragg is an American journalist known for his in-depth reporting on Southern life. His work often delves into social issues such as race, class, and gender, and is praised for its vivid storytelling and insightful analysis. more

“Thrilling, illuminating, heart-pounding. Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy reads like a crackling espionage novel and resonates as only the most compelling history can. Abbott brings to vivid life four extraordinary and audacious women, and runs glorious roughshod over all our traditional notions of the role of women in the Civil War.”

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Author:Megan Abbott

“Old friend, there are people—young and old—that I like, and people that I do not like. The former are always in short supply. I am turned off by humorless fanaticism, whether it's revolutionary mumbo-jumbo by a young one, or loud lessons from scripture by and old one. We are all comical, touching, slapstick animals, walking on our hind legs, trying to make it a noble journey from womb to tomb, and the people who can't see it all that way bore hell out of me.”

“When you see the ugliness behind the tears of another person, it makes you take a closer look at your own.”

Looks Persons Behinds Tears Ugliness

Book:Five complete Travis McGee novels

Source: Five complete Travis McGee novels

“The only thing in the world worth a damn is the strange, touching, pathetic, awesome nobility of the individual human spirit.”

World Humans Philosophy Spirit Individual Strange Damn Touching Human Spirit Nobility Pathetic

Book:Bright Orange for the Shroud: Introduction by Lee Child: Travis McGee

Source: Bright Orange for the Shroud: Introduction by Lee Child: Travis McGee

“It's no good telling somebody they're trying too hard. It's very much like ordering a child to go stand in a corner for a half hour and never once think about elephants.”

Thinking Trying Children Hard Hours Half Corners Elephants Half Hours Trying Too Hard

Author:John D. MacDonald

“I am not suited to the role of going around selling the life-can-be-beautiful idea. It can be, indeed. But you don't buy the concept from your friendly door-to-door lecture salesman.”

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Author:John D. MacDonald

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