Dara Horn Quotes

#1. Memory as an article of faith often comes naturally to writers, who by temperament are likely to be diarists and record keepers, forever searching past events for elusive patterns - and forever believing that such patterns are to be found.

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#2. I'm a person who always wanted to turn my life into an archive. Social media made my dream come true.

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#3. The books are like children in that having written one doesn't make writing the next one any easier, because it's a new set of problems and a new set of challenges with each one, and having dealt with one before means that you now know how to do it.

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#4. Commanded by God dozens of times in the Hebrew Bible to remember their past, Jews historically obeyed not by recording events but by ritually re-enacting them: by understanding the present through the lens of the past.

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#5. Every person has a legacy. You may not know what your impact is, and it may not be something that you can write on your tombstone, but every person has an impact on this world.

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#6. I think all parents have a double life.

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#7. Love your fellow, and not just those who agree with you.

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#8. Most of the other visitors were chained to their audio guides, looking only at what their little headsets told them was worth seeing.

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#9. Why are children so much smarter than adults?

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#10. Another remarkable thing about the dead is that they are all ages, preserved at every age you ever knew them, and at no age at all.

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#11. It was possible, probable even, that the world could be rebuilt.

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#12. Or worse, he could be born perfect, and then, through some error she would never perceive, grow up and destroy someone else's life
for there are thousands of ways to destroy someone's life, Sara knew, but to improve someone's life, there are so few, so few!

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#13. Time itself is created through deeds of true kindness.

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#14. It had been a long time, perhaps years, since she had heard a man apologize

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#15. The way I express ideas is through the plot, Suspense is an important part of expressing an idea.

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#16. No one is anything more than a cloud that vanishes, and the best anyone could hope for was not to be the last.

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#17. ...she smiled - and time was created.

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#18. There's no such thing as a problem that's yours and not mine.

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#19. Sibling relationships figure in a lot of my books. You don't often see relationships between adult siblings explored in fiction.

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#20. I wanted to explore the kinds of hope and doubt, faith and disappointment, that shape the next generation, whether consciously or not. I suppose, in all of my work, I'm always going back in time.

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#21. I am much more aware of making the plot more original, avoiding contrivance, having the story matter much more. I used to think more about symbols consciously. Now I think much more about the story.

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#22. The bathroom was made of the finest materials, but underneath it all was nothing but shit.

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#23. Good books leave an impression. Great books forever alter the way you think about what it means to be alive. You Disappear is not just a well-told story, but a dramatic recalibrating of what it means to have a mind-and a soul.

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#24. My siblings and I had this theory that my parents were spies.

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