I wanted nothing less than ... by Caleb Carr, an American Novelist

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“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.”

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Caleb Carr

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Name: Caleb Carr

Nationality: American

Date of Birth: Aug 2, 1955

Profession: Novelist

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I feel horribly vindicated. Three thousand people died who didn't have to die.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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