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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

#amateur #because #called #fairly #hand

I'm drawn particularly to stories that evolve out of the character of the protagonist. ↗

— David McCullough

#drawn #evolve #i #out #particularly

I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book down. ↗

— David McCullough

#book #distractions #down #good #how

May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof. ↗

— David McCullough

#honest #may #men #none #roof

To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we had to read in college English courses - to read them now is to have one of the infinite pleasures in life. ↗

— David McCullough

#college #courses #english #go #had

With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going over to Europe to follow his tracks in the war. When I got there, there was a certain satisfaction in finding I had it right - it does look like that. ↗

— David McCullough

#before #book #certain #does #entire

He was imposing, even in his pensiveness. ↗

— George Barr McCutcheon

#his #imposing

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

I don't belong on this earth. I always feel out of place - like a visitor. ↗

— Hattie McDaniel

#belong #earth #feel #i #i always

They tell me that it will be hard to find a man strong enough to love my own strength and independence, and not worry about being Mr. Diana Ross, but I disagree. I know absolutely that that man is somewhere out there. ↗

— Diana Ross

#absolutely #being #diana #diana ross #disagree