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I can fairly be called an amateur because I do what I do, in the original sense of the word - for love, because I love it. On the other hand, I think that those of us who make our living writing history can also be called true professionals. ↗

— David McCullough

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I had been writing for about twelve years. I knew pretty well how you could find things out, but I had never been trained in an academic way how to go about the research. ↗

— David McCullough

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I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities. ↗

— David McCullough

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I work very hard on the writing, writing and rewriting and trying to weed out the lumber. ↗

— David McCullough

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In time I began to understand that it's when you start writing that you really find out what you don't know and need to know. ↗

— David McCullough

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My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. It's about the Revolution, with the focus on the year 1776. It's about Washington and the army and the war. It's the nadir, the low point of the United States of America. ↗

— David McCullough

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When I worked at the White House in the mid-1990s, I would not have dreamed of sharing my beliefs on faith with my colleagues. ↗

— Mike McCurry

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In course of time my first novel appeared. It was a love story. ↗

— George Barr McCutcheon

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It was a bright, clear afternoon in the late fall that pretty Miss Cable drove up in her trap and waited at the curb for her father to come forth from his office in one of Chicago's tallest buildings. ↗

— George Barr McCutcheon

#bright #buildings #cable #chicago #clear

Bob Hope, Red Skelton, and Eddie Cantor... help us keep our balance. ↗

— Hattie McDaniel

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