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It is the greatest truth of our age: Information is not knowledge.
Caleb Carr / Novelist
Age
Science
Technology
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People would rather be deceived than have the truth cause them anxiety
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Anxiety
Causes
People
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I feel horribly vindicated. Three thousand people died who didn't have to die.
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Died
Thousand
Vindicated
Horribly
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The defenders of decent society and the disciples of degeneracy are often the same people.
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Decent
Defenders
People
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Warfare against civilians must never be answered in kind. Terror must never be answered with terror.
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Civilians
Kind
Terror
Warfare
Answered
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The definition of terrorism is killing civilians with the intent of changing their political affiliation.
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Politics
Definitions
Political
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Scientists' minds may jump around like amorous toads, but they do seem to accept such behavior in one another.
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May
Mind
Toads
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Absolutely nothing brings out the killer instinct in the upper crust of New York Society like a charity function.
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New York
Charity
Killers
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I, like most of my friends, couldn't believe I bought a mountain called Misery Mountain, because it was so appropriate.
Caleb Carr / Novelist
Appropriate
Believe
Misery
Mountain
Bought
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Still, it's an interesting technique-leaving one person behind in order to find her or him somewhere else. And in someone else.
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Interesting
Order
Somewhere Else
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Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses.
Caleb Carr / Novelist
Friendship
Jobs
Facilitate
Loss
Method
Severe
True Friend
Job
True
Chooses
Friend
Cope
Whatever
Human Being
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You want to believe that there's one relationship in life that's beyond betrayal. A relationship that's beyond that kind of hurt. And there isn't.
Caleb Carr / Novelist
Relationship
Believe
Betrayal
Hurt
Beyond
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I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.
Caleb Carr / Novelist
Grim
Humanity
Mountain
Outlook
Years
Denying
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I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an artist or novelist when I grew up, I would have laughed in your face
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Kids
Artist
Faces
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I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an artist or novelist when I grew up, I would have laughed in your face.
Caleb Carr / Novelist
Laughed
Fiction Writer
Face Me Your
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People are disturbed enough by serial killers, but the whole notion of female violence, particularly maternal violence - the idea of mothers who kill - really unnerves people.
Caleb Carr / Novelist
Ideas
Mother
People
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So if it seems that some of what I'll have to say in the pages to come doesn't reflect the mellowing of age, that's only because I've never found that life and memories respond to time the way that tobacco does.
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Age
Doe
Memories
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I'm a fairly ascetic person. And I do most of my writing at night. You don't get distracted, your brain goes into what you are writing about, into the world you're writing about, rather than into the world you're in.
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Brain
Distracted
Night
Writing
Fairly
Brain World Your
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I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.
Caleb Carr / Novelist
Anger
Kids
Angry
Military
Largely
Specific
Vent
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It didn’t make any more sense to me then than it does now, how life can pile troubles up on a man what don’t deserve them, while letting some of the biggest jackasses and scoundrels alive waltz their way through long, untroubled existences.
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Men
Alive
Long
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I'm still a firm believer that we were definitely put here to use our minds, and that is what makes us different. And that that's the key. If there is anything that is going to stop mankind from being such a beastly, destructive creature, it is reason.
Caleb Carr / Novelist
Beastly
Believer
Destructive
Firm
Mankind
Creature
Firm Believer
Minds
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I have to be very careful, however, because I have no intention of providing an excuse for this behavior. It's an attempt to explain how so many women come from backgrounds where the pressure to be a good mother is so severe that if they can't do it, something really snaps.
Caleb Carr / Novelist
Backgrounds
Behavior
Careful
Excuse
Good Mother
Intention
Mother
Pressure
Providing
Severe
Snaps
Attempt
Explain
No Intention
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She has that quality, does the Hudson, as I imagine all great rivers do: the deep, abiding sense that those activities what take place on shore among human beings are of the moment, passing, and aren't the stories by way of which the greater tale of this planet will, in the end, be told.
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Quality
Rivers
Way
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I get in trouble when I say things like, 'I'm attracted to violence.' I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.
Caleb Carr / Novelist
Anger
Angry
Violence
Largely
Specific
Vent
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Imagine, [Kriezler] said, that you enter a large, somewhat crumbling hall that echoes with the sounds of people mumbling and talking repetitively to themselves. All around you these people fall into prostrate positions, some of them weeping. Where are you? Sara’s answer was immediate: in an asylum. Perhaps, Kreizler answered, but you could also be in a church. In the one place the behavior would be considered mad; in the other, not only sane, but as respectable as any human activity can be.
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Echoes
Fall
Talking
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