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" A lot of the stuff I tweet is out of childlike curiosity. "
David Grann
Tweet
Childlike
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" The public, the whites - not just in Oklahoma, but across the United States - were transfixed by the Osage wealth which belied images of Native Americans that could be traced back to the first brutal contact with whites. "
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" I had always been a huge Sherlock Holmes fan. "
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Sherlock Holmes
Always
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Country
Away
You
" I was not very good at newspaper reporting. I'm just not quick enough, and I always tend to tell things as stories. "
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" My mother doesn't need much sleep. At any hour of the night, you'd wake up, and she'd be reading. She'd read five, six books a week. When we went on sailing trips, she'd bring a suitcaseful for the week. Even then, her office would have to send more. "
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