I'd lied many times: to bolster my credentials, to elicit sympathy, to make myself appear less ordinary.

Michael Finkel

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Frightening things happen in solitude.

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I'm always theoretically opposed to capital punishment as a matter of policy; like, I don't believe a state should put its citizens to death.

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The so-called modern conveniences may, in fact, be extremely inconvenient - everything seems to exist as a distraction from any sort of deeper thought or contemplation.

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My advice for telling someone else's story is to try not to consciously bend the story in any particular direction - to listen with an open mind, to include the good with the bad, to attempt to quell one's biases and allow the person you're writing about to emerge as wholly as possible, warts and all.

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I tend to be a fairly spirited person, but I've never hated anyone more than I hated Christian Longo after his trial, when I realized his guilt and that I had been partially duped.

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