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I'd lied many times: to bolster my credentials, to elicit sympathy, to make myself appear less ordinary.
- Michael Finkel
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#Make
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America might be the land of second chances, but it ain't the land of third chances.
- Michael Finkel
#America
#Chances
#Land
#Second
#Third
My fight-or-flight mechanism... had served me well in Gaza, in Afghanistan, and all the places I'd been.
- Michael Finkel
#Afghanistan
#Been
#Me
#Places
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I committed pretty much the worst thing you can do, which is defraud the readers.
- Michael Finkel
#Pretty
#Thing
#Which
#Worst Thing
#Worst
In my writing, I try to combine all my favorite elements of journalism - accuracy, real characters that exist on this planet - with all my favorite elements of literature: a sense of flow, of propulsion, of wanting to read every sentence.
- Michael Finkel
#Flow
#Journalism
#Literature
#Real
#Try
I am a writer. It's like a third arm to me.
- Michael Finkel
#I Am
#Like
#Me
#Third
#Writer
Modern life, especially with young children, so often seems like a mad rush... We so rarely take time to just do nothing - not look at our phones, not read the news.
- Michael Finkel
#Children
#Life
#Look
#News
#Time
Not to get too maudlin, but I think all mistakes are tests for one's mettle.
- Michael Finkel
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#I Think
#Mistakes
#Tests
#Think
I think that it's human nature to categorize and label things. That's generally the way that the medical and psychological professions work. You look at elements of what you have, and you are able to categorize it, and then you can cure it. That's generally what works.
- Michael Finkel
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#Medical
#Nature
#Way
#Work
I spent 12 years traveling more than six months a year. I really needed to see the world.
- Michael Finkel
#More
#See
#Six
#World
#Year
I think many people have this sense that something about modern society - the screens, the noise, the traffic, the constant busyness - has approached a point where living in the world feels somewhat unhealthy.
- Michael Finkel
#Living
#People
#Society
#Traffic
#World
Frightening things happen in solitude.
- Michael Finkel
#Happen
#Solitude
#Things Happen
#Things
There have always been hermits: people who want to get away from other humans. Literally, some of the first extant books and poems found in Mesopotamia and China mention people living alone in the woods. It's this primal fascination that exists across all cultures and all times.
- Michael Finkel
#Alone
#Always
#Living
#People
#Woods
As a writer, I spend a lot of time alone, and I like it. I'm also a long-distance runner, and I love long, solo road trips; I can drive literally all night, drinking coffee, and not even listening to the radio, just strangely content sifting through the random thoughts in my own head.
- Michael Finkel
#Alone
#Long
#Love
#Thoughts
#Time
Extraordinary things happen in solitude.
- Michael Finkel
#Extraordinary
#Solitude
#Things Happen
In an odd sort of way, the computer and the Internet is the hermit's ideal form of communication. You don't have to see anyone. To send an email, you don't have to talk to anyone. You can just send it, and they'll read it on their own. The Internet has been really good for hermits.
- Michael Finkel
#Communication
#Good
#Internet
#Talk
#Way
Perhaps one could say I've worked in South Africa too long, but I believe in forgiveness, especially when a person admits a mistake, asks for forgiveness, and works to right a wrong.
- Michael Finkel
#Believe
#Forgiveness
#Long
#Mistake
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