Candice Millard Quotes

#1. 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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#2. More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel.

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#3. 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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#4. Dr. Lister, who treated the wounded Pres. Garfield, had been so stung by the medical establishment's reaction to his embrace of African-American doctors that he, in response, refused to do part from the status quo enough to considering using antiseptic techniques.

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#5. During his first year at the Eclectic that, by his second year, the school had promoted him from janitor to assistant professor.

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#6. 'Honor in the Dust' is less about the freedom of the Philippines than the soul of the United States.

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#7. 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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#8. In Garfield's experience, education was salvation. It had freed him from grinding poverty. It had shaped his mind, forged paths, created opportunities where once there had been none. Education, he knew, led to progress, and progress was his country's only hope of escaping its own painful past. In

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#9. Tonight, I am a private citizen. To-morrow I shall be called to assume new responsibilities, and on the day after, the broadside of the world's wrath will strike. It will strike hard. I know it, and you will know it.

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#10. The ordinary traveler, who never goes off the beaten route and who on this beaten route is carried by others, without himself doing anything or risking anything, does not need to show much more initiative and intelligence than an express package, Roosevelt sneered.

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#11. 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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#12. If it was not a good idea, it was at least an interesting one.

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#13. She (the First Lady, entering the room with her gravely wounded husband) would admit fear but not despair.

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#14. The author points out strikingly different reactions to calamity. While many passengers of a devastating shipwreck were thankful to be alive, future presidential assassin Charles Guiteau saw his being spared as proof of his exceptionalism rather than of the grace from which he benefited.

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#15. If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.

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#16. Theodore you have the mind but you have not the body, and without the help of the body the mind cannot go as far as it should. I am giving you the tools, but it is up to you to make your body.

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#17. Although Garfield was dangerously ill, the idea of taking him to a hospital was never considered. Hospitals were only for people who had nowhere else to go. "No sick or injured person who could possibly be nursed at home or in a medical man's private residence,

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#18. 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.

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#19. I must say that I thought there was some derangement of his mental organization.

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#20. I'm very interested in science.

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