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I always just wanted to be a writer, not necessarily a particular kind of writer.

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Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays.

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I was obsessed with George Orwell for years. I remember going to the town library and having to put in interlibrary loan requests to get the compilation of his BBC radio pieces. I had to get everything he ever wrote.

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History is only written from what remains.

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My grandmother, who taught me how to cook, didn't know how to read.

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Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis. You can sell a lot of junk to a lot of people by inventing a stage of life and giving it a name.

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The Karen Ann Quinlan case is where the right to life and the right to die got bound together, and I don't think they've ever gotten untangled.

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One day, I was playing 'The Game of Life,' the board game, with a mess of kids, and I wasn't quite sure how, but it seemed different than the game I remembered playing as a kid. So I bought an old game, from 1960, and it was different.

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In the nineteen-thirties, one in four Americans got their news from William Randolph Hearst, who lived in a castle and owned twenty-eight newspapers in nineteen cities.

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In 2010, one in four Americans got the news from Fox News.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Historian

Born: Unknown

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