Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage.
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Just finding it, and as far as that went, I spent a good part of my life enjoying the study of the ship, ever since I was a little kid.Walter Lord
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I never earned a dollar that was not somehow through writing.
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I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.
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