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Even while writing about foreign places, I have been in a way writing about America, because that's the subject that interests me the most. I'm attached to it, critical, but it's definitely my country, and maybe even more so when I'm overseas.

~George Packer

Topics: About America Attached Because Been Country Critical Definitely Even Foreign Interests Maybe Me More Most Overseas Places Subject Way While Writing

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Jay-Z is a hero, Sam Walton is a hero - these are not exactly communitarian champions. These are - in some cases, literally; in others, just figuratively - gangster heroes. That's who is worshipped: people who get away with it.

~George Packer

Topics: Away Cases Champions Exactly Gangster Get Hero Heroes Jay-Z Just Literally Others People Sam Some Who Worshipped

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Every movement, to stay alive - a very difficult thing to do historically - has to find a way to harness that initial surge of emotion and turn it to the hard, steady, un-sexy work of recruiting new members, strategizing, negotiating with those in power, keeping itself going.

~George Packer

Topics: Alive Difficult Difficult Thing Emotion Every Find Going Hard Harness Historically Initial Itself Keeping Members Movement Negotiating New Power Recruiting Stay Steady Surge Thing Those Turn Very Way Work

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The similarities are limited but real. They amount to a shared disgust with politics as usual in America. The Tea Party focuses on the federal government; Occupy Wall Street focuses on corporate America and its influence over the government.

~George Packer

Topics: America Amount Corporate Corporate America Disgust Federal Federal Government Government Influence Limited Occupy Occupy Wall Street Over Party Politics Real Shared Similarities Street Tea Tea Party Usual Wall Wall Street

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I have my sympathies and also my critical views, and they aren't much of a secret, but my first job is to see and hear and think about what I've seen and heard.

~George Packer

Topics: About Also Critical First First Job Hear Heard Job Much Secret See Seen Sympathies Think Views

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I think the mix of narrative and analysis that the 'New Yorker' requires is a perfect expression of what my parents each gave me.

~George Packer

Topics: Analysis Each Expression Gave Me Mix Narrative New New Yorker Parents Perfect Requires Think Yorker I Think

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I am not a pure fiction writer, nor am I an academic writer. Somehow I ended up in this blended area of literary journalism.

~George Packer

Topics: Academic Am Area Blended Ended Fiction Fiction Writer Journalism Literary Nor Pure Somehow Up Writer I Am

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So many writers grew up in tortured isolation, in revolt against their families. I and my sister were in a house where writing was considered the worthiest thing you could try to do.

~George Packer

Topics: Against Considered Could Families Grew House Isolation Many Revolt Sister Thing Tortured Try Up Were Where Writers Writing You

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For 20 years, my mother, my sister and I had seldom spoken of my father. If he happened to come up in conversation, pain and embarrassment entered the room and stayed until he disappeared back into the silence with which we all felt more at ease.

~George Packer

Topics: Back Come Conversation Disappeared Ease Embarrassment Entered Father Felt Had Happened He More Mother Pain Room Seldom Silence Sister Spoken Stayed Until Up Which Years

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I've read a lot of war writing, even World War I writing, the British war poetry of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves's memoir 'Goodbye to All That,' and a civilian memoir, 'Testament of Youth,' by Vera Brittain.

~George Packer

Topics: British Civilian Even Goodbye Graves Lot Memoir Poetry Read Robert Testament Vera War World World War World War I Writing Youth

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: August 13th, 1960

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