Former Quote by Tony Horwitz

“There are people one knows and people one doesn't. One shouldn't cheapen the former by feigning intimacy with the latter.”

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“I asked him if he thought “there” was better than “here.” “Not better,” he said. “I mean, my great-great-grandpap got his leg shot off. But I feel like it was bigger somehow.” Hawkins flipped through pages of Civil War pictures. “At work, I mix dyes and put them in a machine. I’m thirty-six and I’ve spent almost half my life…

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“When the singing ended, I chatted with others in my pew, including a tall, aristocratic-looking man with pomaded gray hair. I told him about the Lee-Jackson gatherings I'd attended and asked how he felt about people still celebrating the Confederacy. "I'm happy they have the freedom to celebrate those men, the same way we celebrate [Martin Luther] King here," he…

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“You asked how I'd define prejudice. That's it. Making assumptions about people you've never met.”

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I couldn't think of another city in the world that lined its streets with stone leviathans honoring failed rebels against the state.

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“My life has been of but little worth mostly fild [sic] up with vanity.”

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