Caleb Carr Quotes

• I get in trouble when I say things like, ‘I’m attracted to violence.’ 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.

  Caleb Carr

  Topics in History, Uncategorized

  Tags in Self

• 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.

  Caleb Carr

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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.

  Caleb Carr

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  Tags in Self, Artist, Novelists

• 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.

  Caleb Carr

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  Tags in Different, Destructive

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

  Caleb Carr

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  Tags in Feel, Die

• Warfare against civilians must never be answered in kind. Terror must never be answered with terror.

  Caleb Carr

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  Tags in Civilians, Warfare

• You want to believe that there’s one relationship in life that’s beyond betrayal. A relationship that’s beyond that kind of hurt. And there isn’t.

  Caleb Carr

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  Tags in Relationship, Betrayal

• I’m a fairly ascetic person. And I do most of my writing at night. You don’t get distracted, your brain goes into what you are writing about, into the world you’re writing about, rather than into the world you’re in.

  Caleb Carr

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Writing

• I have to be very careful, however, because I have no intention of providing an excuse for this behavior. It’s an attempt to explain how so many women come from backgrounds where the pressure to be a good mother is so severe that if they can’t do it, something really snaps.

  Caleb Carr

  Topics in Mother

  Tags in Intention

• I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.

  Caleb Carr

  Topics in Humanity, Mother

  Tags in Mountain

• I, like most of my friends, couldn’t believe I bought a mountain called Misery Mountain, because it was so appropriate.

  Caleb Carr

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  Tags in Appropriate, Friends

• 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.

  Caleb Carr

Caleb Carr (12)

Birth:	2nd August, 1955
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist

About

A son of Lucien Carr, a former UPI editor and a key Beat generation figure, he was born in Manhattan and lived for much of his life on the Lower East Side. He attended New York Friends Seminary, Kenyon College and New York University, earning a B.A. in military and diplomatic history. He writes frequently on military and political affairs and was a contributing editor of MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History until 2008.

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