"And then I settled into the most natural thing for a man with no real talents. Journalism."

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Source : Charlie LeDuff (2013). “Detroit: An American Autopsy”, p.8, Penguin

Charlie LeDuff

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“I am a believer in punctuality though it makes me very lonely”
“At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.”
“Scientists have demonstrated that dramatic, positive changes can occur in our lives as a direct result of facing an extreme challenge - whether it's coping with a serious illness, daring to quit smoking, or dealing with depression. Researchers call this 'post-traumatic growth.'”
“I love strange things; my favorite movies are weird, eclectic, and intriguing.”
“The most solitary I ever felt was when I was living in New York. I used to live in Enrico Caruso's old apartment, and I had a special staircase that took me up to the roof. There was nobody up there.”
“Oddly enough, my partner went on Prodigy when it first came out, and I ended up playing with some of that stuff!.”
“Half the world is below average and it's not going to get any better.”
“I had to learn that there is more to the human being than material comfort, more than success, more even than national spirit or patriotism. That in any being worthy of being human there is also a demand for justice, for liberty, and that justice needs the evidence of all our lives, liberty is one and indivisible and collective, and no one can talk of justice solely for expediency's sake, nor of liberty while human beings, anywhere else on earth, are still in bondage.”

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