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You cannot underestimate the influence of Shakespeare.
- Nathaniel Philbrick
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#Influence
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#You
Washington worked very hard to create his legacy. Even before the War of Independence was over, he was assembling his papers and making sure they were going to be in a state of preservation that would represent as best he could the official side of what occurred during the Revolution.
- Nathaniel Philbrick
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#Independence
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A survival tale peels away the niceties and comforts of civilization. Suddenly, all the technology and education in the world means nothing. I think all of us wonder while reading a survival tale, 'What would I have done in this situation? Would I have made it?'
- Nathaniel Philbrick
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#Survival
#Technology
#World
Whatever you read, there's no better place to read than the cockpit or the berth of a boat. It's kind of like being in a womb.
- Nathaniel Philbrick
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#Boat
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#Whatever
You know, if you're at home with children, you lose twenty-five IQ points.
- Nathaniel Philbrick
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#Home
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#Know
#Lose
Writing can't be too calculated. My best writing is when I set it aside, move on. It's not when I'm crafting a sentence, thinking about what word should follow another.
- Nathaniel Philbrick
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#Thinking
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There's an ugly civil war side to revolutionary Boston that we don't often talk about and a lot of thuggish, vigilante behavior by groups like the Sons of Liberty.
- Nathaniel Philbrick
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#Liberty
#Talk
#Ugly
#War
More than 25 miles off the coast of Massachusetts and only 14 miles long, Nantucket is, as Herman Melville wrote in 'Moby-Dick,' 'away off shore.'
- Nathaniel Philbrick
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#Miles
#More
#Only
#Shore
Most Americans have no clue that before there were highways, there were only waterways to get through the wilderness. If you weren't on a lake or a river, you were in a jungle.
- Nathaniel Philbrick
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#River
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I'm not one of these people who want to tear down our heroes and that kind of thing.
- Nathaniel Philbrick
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#Heroes
#People
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After Brown, I went to Duke, to a Ph.D. program in American literature. My dad's an English professor. After a year there, I was like, 'Jesus. I don't want to do this. I don't want to be in the library.' So I pulled the ripcord, and that was it.
- Nathaniel Philbrick
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#Dad
#Library
#Literature
#Want
As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.
- Nathaniel Philbrick
#Books
#History
#Lot
#Narrative
#Read
I watch a lot of bad TV. I spend my entire day reading and writing, and after dinner my idea of fun is just to watch a lot of bad TV. That's how I relax and stay in touch with modern culture.
- Nathaniel Philbrick
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#Day
#Dinner
#Fun
#Relax
We think of the revolution ending in Yorktown, Va. The fact of the matter is that the French defeated the British in a naval battle right in the mouth of Chesapeake Bay. Because the British fleet was coming to rescue Cornwallis, the British general, Washington was able to surround Cornwallis.
- Nathaniel Philbrick
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#Ending
#Mouth
#Revolution
#Right
I was an English major at Brown. I never enjoyed history classes.
- Nathaniel Philbrick
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#History
#Major
#Never
In all natural disasters through time, man needs to attach meaning to tragedy, no matter how random and inexplicable the event is.
- Nathaniel Philbrick
#Man
#Natural Disasters
#Random
#Time
I had a great AP U.S. History teacher in Pittsburgh. We still exchange Christmas cards. She was the first teacher who said I was a good writer - and I'd never heard that before. And so I remember that, and I remember that level of loving the material and really loving writing about it.
- Nathaniel Philbrick
#Christmas
#Good
#Great
#History
#Teacher
When I was at Brown, I wanted to write the great American novel, but I was too scared to take a creative course. I signed up for one, got in, and just didn't have the courage to go. I was a tremendously shy person, almost pathologically shy. The thought of peers critiquing my work - oh, God.
- Nathaniel Philbrick
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#God
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