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Andrew Krivak

(1963) Novelist

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Andrew Krivak is a novelist.

Quick Facts About Andrew Krivak

Born: August 28, 1963
Profession: Novelist

About Andrew Krivak

[Wikidata] American writer... | [Wikipedia] Andrew Krivák is an American novelist. His debut novel, The Sojourn (2011) was nominated for the National Book Award for Fiction, won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and was well received critically. He also wrote a memoir about his time in the Jesuit order, A Long Retreat: In Search of a Religious

Quotes by Andrew Krivak

“What is left to be afraid of?' And he said, 'The possibility that a life itself may prove to be the most…

Fear

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“Banquo asked me how it felt to be alive when I saw so many of my comrades dead or dying, and I…

Death

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“I longed only to turn back and climb and begin life all over again in a place where I might find the…

Another time

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“Like a couple that communicates by intention nearly as much as by word, so in tune are they to each other and…

Communication

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“I prayed for death so as not to live in madness.”

Death

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“I had never seen anyone fight and I had never been taught to defend myself. But I knew hurt and never wondered…

Hurt

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“The Northwestern Carpathians, in which I was raised, were a hard place, as unforgiving as the people who lived there, but the…

Death

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“Each believed that God was on his side, for no one raises a hand without convincing himself first that he is right.”

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“Like the body, courage, too, is a thing weakened, especially when we are young and invincible. We can't give one the rest…

Courage

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“The only difference between life here and on the battlefield was there we believed that the outcome of the war would be…

Death

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