"Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiography."
-Arthur Smith
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-Timothy McVeigh
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-Dallas Willard
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-Richard Stengel
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-Nicole Anderson
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"I went to school at this log school house. A white woman was my teacher, I do not remember her name. My father had to pay her one dollar a month for me. Us kids that went to school did not have desks, we used slates and set on the hued down logs for seats."
-Joe Davis
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