Quotes by Candice Millard - Page 1

I have always been interested in the idea of self-reinvention.
Candice Millard / Writer
Ideas
Landscape Architecture
Self
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Honor in the Dust is less about the freedom of the Philippines than the soul of the United States.
Candice Millard / Writer
Dust
Honor
Soul
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'Honor in the Dust' is less about the freedom of the Philippines than the soul of the United States.
Candice Millard / Writer
Dust
Honor
Philippines
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If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.
Candice Millard / Writer
Nonfiction
Truth Is
Greatest Challenge
Reward
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She (the First Lady, entering the room with her gravely wounded husband) would admit fear but not despair.
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Despair
Entering
Husband
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More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel.
Candice Millard / Writer
Life Is
Pages
Real
Real Life
Complex
Implausible
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As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to know as a writer.
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Great Men
Privileged
Life Men Great
Encountered
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Late-19th-century America, with all its chaotic change and immense potential, seems to have been the perfect place to become not someone else, but someone new.
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Chaotic
Immense
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As someone who has long loved history and reads a lot of history, especially when you get a distance like 130 years, these people can seem almost mythical, and you need something tangible to make them real.
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Distance
Tangible
History Long People
Mythical
Reads
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When I began work on my first book, The River of Doubt, which tells the story of Theodore Roosevelts 1914 descent of an unmapped river in the Amazon rainforest, I thought of it as a tale of adventure, exploration and extraordinary courage.
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Adventure
Book
Rivers
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When I began work on my first book, 'The River of Doubt,' which tells the story of Theodore Roosevelt's 1914 descent of an unmapped river in the Amazon rainforest, I thought of it as a tale of adventure, exploration and extraordinary courage.
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Adventure
Descent
Exploration
Extraordinary
Theodore
River
Roosevelt
Tale
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With the Lincoln assassination, the South didnt feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the American people. He was trusted and respected by North and South, by freed slaves and former slave owners. Also by pioneers, which his parents had been, and by immigrants.
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Parent
People
Slave Owners
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With the Lincoln assassination, the South didn't feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the American people. He was trusted and respected by North and South, by freed slaves and former slave owners. Also by pioneers, which his parents had been, and by immigrants.
Candice Millard / Writer
Assassination
Beloved
Former
Garfield
Immigrants
Mourn
Owners
Pioneers
Slave
Trusted
People Feel Parents
American People
Freed
Parents People Feel
Lincoln
North
Slaves
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I had a moment in the Library of Congress among the presidential papers. I opened a folder, and there was an envelope in it. The front of the envelope was facing the table, so I didn't know what was in it. I opened it and out spilled all this hair. I turned the envelop over and it says, 'Clipped from President Garfield's head on his deathbed.'
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Deathbed
Garfield
Papers
Presidential
Envelope
Facing
Opened
Spilled
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