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“I cannot help but think a curious event is this life of mine”

Thinking Helping Events Mines Curious This Life

Author:John James Audubon

“A friend of mine once said that there were only two truly national events in the history of the United States. One was the Civil War and the other one was the Depression.”

Said Two War States United United States Events Mines Civil War

Author:Arthur Miller

“As someone who has spent a lot of her career as an investigative reporter, I'll confess that a frustration of mine has always been that so much investigative journalism involves a dissection of events in the past.”

Past Careers Events Mines Journalism Frustration Reporters Dissection Investigative Journalism

Author:Jill Abramson

“Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence. The most exact calculator has noprescience that somewhat incalculable may not balk the very next moment. I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.”

Knows Men May Moments God Next Events Mines Source Higher Acknowledge Streams Descending Calculators

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

“I have insane curiosity as to what happened in all these events. I will never know. I'm not a researcher. I don't possess that kind of mind. I have a researcher who compiles the fact sheets and chronologies that allow me to write these big books of mine.”

Knows Writing Mind Kind Book Facts Bigs Happened Events Mines Curiosity Insane Sheets Researchers Chronology Big Book

Author:James Ellroy

“A friend of mine who works for naval intelligence said an aerial satellite revealed that 1.9 million attended the event in 1995. But if they would have had a rumble at the march the newspapers would have said that 75 million Afro-Americans were there.”

Ifs Said Millions Events Mines Intelligence Newspapers March Satellites Naval Afros Rumble

Author:Dick Gregory

“The facts, however, are unimportant in fiction. It's not the events of my life that I mine, but the emotional experiences I've had.”

Facts Fiction Events Emotional Mines Unimportant

Author:John Dufresne