I, for one, know of no sweeter sight for a man's eyes than his own country
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What interested me was not news, but appraisal. What I sought was to grasp the flavor of a man, his texture, his impact, what he stood for, what he believed in, what made him what he was and what color he gave to the fabric of his time.
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perhaps the entire harrowing episode would make his brain even finer, subtler, and more sensitive than it was.
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