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Caleb Carr
American
Novelist
About the author
I feel horribly vindicated. Three thousand people died who didn't have to die.
Caleb Carr,
American
Novelist
#People
Warfare against civilians must never be answered in kind. Terror must never be answered with terror.
Caleb Carr,
American
Novelist
#Terror
I'm still a firm believer that we were definitely put here to use our minds, and that is what makes us different. And that that's the key. If there is anything that is going to stop mankind from being such a beastly, destructive creature, it is reason.
Caleb Carr,
American
Novelist
#Being
#Reason
#Key
#Mankind
I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an artist or novelist when I grew up, I would have laughed in your face.
Caleb Carr,
American
Novelist
#Nothing
#Writer
#Fiction
#Artist
Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses.
Caleb Carr,
American
Novelist
#Being
#Friend
#Job
#Loss
I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.
Caleb Carr,
American
Novelist
#Pretty
#Anger
#History
#Trying
#Violence
#Military
#Focus