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I don't want to just traffic in sensationalism or in mere blood.
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My night stand is more like a geological structure: a bunch of books piled on the floor with its own strata.
David Grann
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The political hero is not like the sports champion or matinee idol or daring inventor; like the war hero, he is born only of tragedy.
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Most of Gingrich's moderate positions are rooted in a realpolitik that transcends ideology.
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I don't cry too often reading books, but I did reading Francisco Goldman's autobiographical novel, 'Say Her Name.'
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Barry Bonds was still young when his father's fall began. Although Bobby still continued to put up good numbers year after year, he never lived up to expectations.
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I had always been a huge Sherlock Holmes fan.
David Grann -
I haven't read a word of Proust. And I listen obsessively to sports radio.
David Grann
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I'm a very slow reader.
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I have lots of gaps in my education, and so I'm often picking up classic books that most people read years ago.
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The only thing as murky as a conspiracy is what's happening in Hollywood.
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I was a schoolteacher; I taught seventh and eighth grade, and I tried to write fiction on the side.
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It took me a long time to be able to write for the 'New Yorker,' and for me, that has been the best job. I live a very conventional life, but reporting for the magazine has allowed me to do things I would never otherwise do, such as investigating a criminal conspiracy in Guatemala or trekking through the Amazon looking for a lost city.
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When criminals go free, the hope is that history will come in and provide some level of justice. It won't correct the sins, but it will at least record them. The sinners would be known, and the victims' stories would be known.
David Grann
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I guess if I had to pick one interest that is unique, it would be giant squids - I'm disturbingly fascinated by them and even wrote a story about the hunt for them.
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Honestly, I had no idea what to do on Twitter when I started. I didn't follow it enough. Slowly, though, I started to realize what I'm okay at. Like, I'm just not particularly witty.
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I am not, by nature, an explorer or an adventurer.
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Each person, as they live through history, can't see it all.
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One of the things I believe strongly in is developing institutions - legal, press, bureaucracies, academies - that are rooted in the pursuit of impartial truth. That aren't simply just bent to partisan ends or are corrupted for the powerful or for other ulterior motives.
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I don't hunt, I don't camp, and I get lost on my subway to work here in Times Square!
David Grann
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Although baseball actually began as a game played largely by urban toughs, its image was soon reconstructed to mirror the country's pastoral myth.
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I look for stories everywhere.
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There are some incredibly gifted writers in the world. You can count them on a hand. They're blessed, and they've worked at their craft, but there's very few.
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If someone told me I had to stop writing stories, that would be the end of me.
David Grann