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“Many young authors finding themselves so satisfactorily situated would have waded into the choppy seas of their ambitions without a moment’s delay...."
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“There was a buzz of excitement when I arrived at my Harvard office on a June morning in 1972. Richard “Dick” Goodwin had just taken an office on the third floor."
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“It’s the crime of the decade! The early-morning headline explodes across my iPhone as I scan it through bleary eyes."
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“The day Sloan Cooper died began before dawn and ended shortly before midnight. As a corporal in the Natural Resources Police, she’d helped take down a trio of men who spent most of the fall harassing, robbing and assaulting hikers on the trails in the Western Maryland mountains.”
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“Theo couldn’t imagine wanting anything in this sadness-infused pile of discards.... There were some old paperbacks slugged into a beer carton. He was always curious about what people read. He reached down to check the titles. And that is when he saw the horse.”
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“Later, not a single person will recall seeing the lady board the flight at Hobart Airport."
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“Phillip. The story begins before the reporters and the television correspondents flocked to interview the team."
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“Day and Night, the final pages of “Clearly It Is Ocean” haunted me. I couldn’t stop rereading them."
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“April 6, 1865. Well, father, who won the majority? Emma or Mansfield Park? William Stevenson answered from behind his newspaper at the head of the breakfast table, “Emma, of course.”
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“The monk heard that a ship had arrived carrying one of the dog-headed people whom travelers speak of when they tell tall tales of the one-eyed and the winged, and he went out to the docks to see if it was true.”