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I always love novels that open up a subject to me - like raising a window to a beautiful, mysterious world outside.

~David Ebershoff

Topics: Always Beautiful Like Love Me Mysterious Novels Open Outside Raising Subject Up Window World

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If the Latterday Saints had not abandoned plural marriage, they would have remained a fringe religion and would never have moved into mainstream American culture. Today, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints thrives. It is one of the fastest growing religions in the country and is the most successful American-born religion.

~David Ebershoff

Topics: Abandoned American American Culture Christ Church Country Culture Fastest Fringe Growing Had Jesus Jesus Christ Mainstream Marriage Most Moved Never Religion Religions Remained Saints Successful Thrive Today Would

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The soles of the best writers, a professor once told me, are worn down to holes. This is an incomplete measure, but the image of a writer grinding his or her shoes against curbs and cobblestones stuck with me. The story is always out there, the details around the corner or down the alley.

~David Ebershoff

Topics: Against Alley Always Around Best Corner Details Down Grinding Her His Holes Image Incomplete Me Measure Once Out Professor Shoes Story Stuck Worn Writer Writers

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'The Danish Girl' was published in 2000. Then it, too, would disappear, as most books do. It fell out of print almost everywhere. I wrote other books and, as an editor, worked on dozens more. Yet always, Lili stayed with me.

~David Ebershoff

Topics: Almost Always Books Danish Disappear Dozens Editor Everywhere Fell Girl Me More Most Other Out Print Published Stayed Then Too Worked Would Wrote

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History devours, but at times it resurrects. Some lives must wait for history to catch up.

~David Ebershoff

Topics: Catch History Lives Must Some Times Up Wait

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Sometimes when I travel, I like to close my eyes and imagine visiting during another era.

~David Ebershoff

Topics: Another Close Era Eyes Imagine Like Sometimes Travel Visiting

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I usually don't throw around the word 'fabulous,' but how else to describe buildings decorated with mirrored water dragons, serpents tiled in colored glass, and hundreds - no, thousands, no, tens of thousands - of gold-leaf Buddhas? Luang Prabang has more than 47,000 residents, but its Buddha population must be ten times that.

~David Ebershoff

Topics: Around Buddha Buddhas Buildings Colored Describe Dragons Else Fabulous Glass How Hundreds More Must Population Residents Ten Ten Times Tens Tens Of Thousands Than Thousands Throw Times Water Word

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I first read 'The Scarlet Letter' when I was fifteen. In it, I found a familiar vision of religious intolerance to the one around me. I grew up in the 1980s, when televangelists, with their fluffed up hair and their tears, self-righteously denounced all kinds of sinners, reserving a special, full-throated enthusiasm for gay people.

~David Ebershoff

Topics: Around Enthusiasm Familiar Fifteen First Found Gay Grew Hair Intolerance Kinds Letter Me People Read Religious Scarlet Sinners Special Tears Up Vision 1980S

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Who are we? Whom do we want to become? How do we perceive ourselves? How do we want to be perceived? These questions of identity are often at the core of our own internal struggles. Resolve them, and you are closer to being free.

~David Ebershoff

Topics: Become Being Closer Core Free How Identity Internal Often Our Ourselves Own Perceive Perceived Questions Resolve Struggles Them Want Who Whom You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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