None of my clients are criminals, but to a much lighter degree that's what goes on. I hear … - Hilary Liftin

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If we wish our civilization to survive we must break with the habit of deference to great men.

Hilary Liftin

None of my clients are criminals, but to a much lighter degree that's what goes on. I hear the story, and I hear it with the level of detail that breeds empathy.

Breeds, Criminals, Degrees, Empathy, Lighter, Story

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No one grows up thinking they want to be a ghostwriter. No one plans on that job.

Growing Up, Grows, Job, Jobs, Thinking

I'm so used to being separate from the publication process. I turn in the book to the editor and then I'm done.

Book, Done, Editor, Editors, Separate, Used

I don't think you can take a whole genre of very popular books and say, "This is all trash!" When we read a memoir that isn't by a celebrity, we feel like we're about to go on a journey and we don't know where the journey will lead. But when we read a memoir by a celebrity we feel like we already know the journey and we just want to travel it.

Book, Journey, Like, Memoir, Thinking, Travel

I think that the celebrity memoir as a genre is looked upon as a lesser form. One of my missions as a ghostwriter has been to elevate that form. Maybe that sounds pretentious!

Genre, Genre Is, Lesser, Missions, Sound, Thinking

I think one of the big things that's come out of ghostwriting for me is real compassion for the complexity of fame.

Compassion, Fame, Ghostwriting, Real, Thinking

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If we wish our civilization to survive we must break with the habit of deference to great men.

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Patrick Ewing

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Joseph Sobran

It can be exalting to belong to a church that is five hundred years behind the times and sublimely indifferent to fashion; it is mortifying to belong to a church that is five minutes behind the times, huffing and puffing to catch up.

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Alexandra Bracken

What I’m trying to get at is, as bad as everything seems, I think, at its heart, life is good. It doesn’t throw anything at us that it knows we can’t handle—and, even if it takes its time, it turns everything right side up again.

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