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" I have always been interested in the idea of self-reinvention. "
Candice Millard
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" I had a moment in the Library of Congress among the presidential papers. I opened a folder, and there was an envelope in it. The front of the envelope was facing the table, so I didn't know what was in it. I opened it and out spilled all this hair. I turned the envelop over and it says, 'Clipped from President Garfield's head on his deathbed.' "
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" If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward. "
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" When I began work on my first book, 'The River of Doubt,' which tells the story of Theodore Roosevelt's 1914 descent of an unmapped river in the Amazon rainforest, I thought of it as a tale of adventure, exploration and extraordinary courage. "
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" Late-19th-century America, with all its chaotic change and immense potential, seems to have been the perfect place to become not someone else, but someone new. "
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