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I don't camp; I don't hike. I hate bugs, and I'm phobic of snakes.

~David Grann

Topics: Bugs Camp Hate Hike Snakes

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You think of the rainforest as this incredibly abundant place of fauna and animals and flora. This great, rich wilderness. And yet it is such a biological battlefield in which everything is competing.

~David Grann

Topics: Abundant Animals Battlefield Biological Competing Everything Flora Great Incredibly Place Rich Think Which Wilderness You

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The giant squid is the perfect embodiment of a sea monster: it is huge, it has tentacles, it has big eyes, and it is absolutely frightening-looking. But, most important, it is real. Unlike the Loch Ness monster, we know it's out there.

~David Grann

Topics: Absolutely Big Embodiment Eyes Giant Huge Important Know Monster Most Out Perfect Real Sea Unlike

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We all mythologize to some degree ourselves and probably embellish. I think some of that is the desire to tell stories.

~David Grann

Topics: Degree Desire Embellish Ourselves Some Stories Tell Think I Think

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Heroes have always served as a reflection of their times, a template of who we are and what we want to be.

~David Grann

Topics: Always Heroes Reflection Served Times Want Who

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Base stealers are often considered their own breed: reckless, egocentric, even a touch mad.

~David Grann

Topics: Base Breed Considered Egocentric Even Mad Often Own Reckless Touch

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I love the magic of stories and the power of stories.

~David Grann

Topics: Love Magic Power Stories I Love

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If I can find the right idea, I can get out of the way and do a good story.

~David Grann

Topics: Find Get Good Good Story Idea Out Right Story Way I Can

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Baseball, of course, has long been played under the burden of metaphor. More so than basketball or football, it is supposed to represent something larger than itself.

~David Grann

Topics: Baseball Basketball Been Burden Course Football Itself Larger Long Metaphor More Played Represent Something Supposed Than

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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.

~David Grann

Topics: Actually Although Baseball Began Country Game Image Largely Mirror Myth Played Soon Urban

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: March 10th, 1967

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