"I don't want to paint myself as some kind of saint - that would be laughable - but I do think I've been able over the years to write humanely about subjects who are controversial and even contemptible. I've profiled pedophiles, stalkers, serial rapists, prison gang members and corrupt politicians."

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Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com

Robert Draper

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Years Quotes

“Maybe somewhere in some other galaxy there is a super-intelligence so colossal that from our point of view it would be a god. But it cannot have been the sort of God that we need to explain the origin of the universe, because it cannot have been there that early.”
“I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?”
“It's difficult to do that internally, because you're flying five, six hours.”
“There is only one definition of science fiction that seems to make sense: 'Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.'”
“This journey then, is nothing more, yet nothing less than a period of acclimating to a new way of seeing, a time of transition and revelation as it gradually comes upon "that" which remains when there is no self. this is not a journey for those who expect love and bliss, rather, it is for the hardy who have been tried by fire and have come to rest in a tough, immovable trust in "that" which lies beyond the known, beyond the self, beyond union and even beyond love and trust itself”
“And as the bullet ripped through his flesh, Ralston was consumed by a single thought: I never told her that I loved her.”
“[On amassing art for her collection:] My motto was 'Buy a picture a day' and I lived up to it.”
“Human relations, I mess them up, and they let me down.”

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