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Misha Glenny

"When you're researching things that have happened, the clear narrative arc is not there already. This is the problem of writing nonfiction for me - writing nonfiction which is about serious subjects and has serious political and social points to make, yet which is meant to be popular to a degree - what happens when the facts don't fit a convenient narrative arc? I guess that for a lot of nonfiction writers that is a central challenge."

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Misha Glenny

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“I hurt for my Marines, goodhearted American guys who'd bear these burdens for the rest of their lives. And I mourned for myself. Not in self-pity, but for the kid who'd come to Iraq. He was gone. I did all this in the dark, away from the platoon, because combat command is the loneliest job in the world.”

Source : Nathaniel Fick (2006). “One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer”, p.243, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“The gifts of caring, attention, affection, appreciation, and love are some of the most precious gifts you can give, and they don't cost you anything.”
“Could a dream kill a man? Could it strangle him where he sat sleeping?”

Source : Jedediah Berry (2009). “The Manual of Detection: A Novel”, p.158, Penguin
“No man who is not willing to bear arms and to fight for his rights can give a good reason why he should be entitled to the privilege of living in a free community.”
“My name is Joel Goodson. I deal in human fulfillment. I grossed over eight thousand dollars in one night.”
“Even when the time control has been reached, there is one situation where you want to act as if it has not: when your position is absolutely lost.”
“Humility is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.”
“You and I were different. We came from different worlds, and yet you were the one how taught me the value of love. You showed me what it was like to care for another, and I am a better man because of it. I don't want you to ever forget that.”

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