Amy Waldman Quotes - Page 2

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• The rhetoric is the first step, it coarsens attitudes

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  Attitude, Firsts, Steps

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• In life, redemption was walking up the down escalator: stop to congratulate yourself, and back you slid.

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  Redemption, Walking, Escalators

  Amy Waldman (2011). “The Submission: A Novel”, p.58, Macmillan

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• Eden, paradise - all the best gardens are imaginary.

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  Garden, Eden, Paradise

  "The Submission". Book by Amy Waldman, August 16, 2011.

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• In America time was gold; in Bangladesh, corrugated tin.

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  America, Gold, Tin

  Amy Waldman (2011). “The Submission: A Novel”, p.75, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• I wasn't sitting around years ago thinking I really want to write a novel.

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  Writing, Thinking, Years

  "Journalist Amy Waldman". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. November 15, 2011.

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• As a reporter you tend to seek coherence from your subject or your source - it all needs to add up and make sense. In truth, in reality, there's often a great deal of murkiness and muddiness, confusion and contradiction.

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  Reality, Confusion, Add

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• Fiction just has a lot more room for ambivalence and internal conflict, contradiction, and for me that sums up so much of what people felt after 9/11 - confusion even. And I think that's hard to capture in journalism.

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  Thinking, People, Confusion

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• Fabricating reality was criminal; editing it, commonplace.

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  Reality, Editing, Criminals

  Amy Waldman (2011). “The Submission”, p.160, Random House

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• Marrying Cal, the scion of a family whose wealth dated to the Industrial Revolution and had multiplied through every turn of the American economy since, ought to have eased her worries about failing to climb as high as she believed she deserved. But the money was his, not theirs. The unspoken power this gave him kept her from asking: Why don't you stay home?

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  Home, Asking Why, Worry

  Amy Waldman (2011). “The Submission: A Novel”, p.31, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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