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title: "3 Tom Drury Quotes - Famous Journalist"
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# Tom Drury

(1956)   Journalist

 **3** quotes in **7** categories

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Tom Drury is a journalist.

## Quick Facts About Tom Drury

Born January 1, 1956

Profession Journalist

## About Tom Drury

American writer... \| Tom Drury is an American novelist and the author of The End of Vandalism. He was included in the 1996 Granta issue of "The Best of Young American Novelists" and has received the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Berlin Prize, and the MacDowell Fellowship. His short stories have been serialized in The New Y

##  Quotes by Tom Drury

> [“Accelerated Rehabilitation had a scientific sound, as if Pierre would rehabilitate faster and faster in an elliptical path until evaporating in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-drury/accelerated-rehabilitation-had-a-scientific-sound-as-if-pierre-would/)

[Tom Drury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-drury/)

[Health](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/health/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d31/tom-drury-75152_health_accelerated-rehabilitation-had-a-scienti_1038477.jpg)

> [“A face is a kind of a mask anyway, when you think about it," he said. Rudd took a drink and set…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-drury/a-face-is-a-kind-of-a-mask-anyway-when-you-think-about-it-he-said/)

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[Face](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/face/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/30d/tom-drury-75152_face_a-face-is-a-kind-of-a-mask-anyway-when-y_2655727.jpg)

> [“It's not Adventureland, but you write some poems, the leaves move, and you get laid sometimes." Tom Drury's Pierre Hunter on life.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-drury/it-s-not-adventureland-but-you-write-some-poems-the-leaves-move-and/)

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[Poems](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/poems/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/173/tom-drury-75152_poems_it-s-not-adventureland-but-you-write-som_2826429.jpg)

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