Laura Hillenbrand Quotes

• It's easy to talk to a horse if you understand his language. Horses stay the same from the day they are born until the day they die. They are only changed by the way people treat them.

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  Horse, People, Way

  Laura Hillenbrand (2002). “Seabiscuit: The True Story of Three Men and a Racehorse”, HarperCollins UK

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• Without dignity, identity is erased. In its absence, men are defined not by themselves, but by their captors and the circumstances in which they are forced to live.

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  Men, Identity, Unbroken

  Laura Hillenbrand (2010). “Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption”, p.183, Random House

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• The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when their tormentors suffer.

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  Life, Pain, Believe

  Laura Hillenbrand (2010). “Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption”, p.366, Random House

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• ... character reigns preeminent in determining potential.

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  Character, Reign

  Laura Hillenbrand (2003). “Seabiscuit: An American Legend”, p.408, Ballantine Books

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• I just thought I was empty and now I'm being filled...and I just wanted to keep being filled.

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  Empty, Filled, Wanted

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• Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can hold a man's soul in his body long past the point at which the body should have surrendered it.

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  Men, Past, Oxygen

  Laura Hillenbrand (2010). “Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption”, p.183, Random House

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• His books were the closest thing he had to furniture and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs.

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  Book, Men, Way

  Laura Hillenbrand (2003). “Seabiscuit: An American Legend”, p.49, Ballantine Books

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• Esta autoestima y sentido de la propia valía, el armamento más íntimo del alma, se encuentra en el corazón de la humanidad; ser privado de ella es ser deshumanizado, ser escindido y arrojado por debajo de la humanidad.

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  Lying, Heart, Self Worth

  Laura Hillenbrand (2010). “Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption”, p.182, Random House

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• His conviction that everything happened for a reason, and would come to good, gave him laughing equanimity even in hard times.

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  Hard Times, Laughing, Unbroken

  Laura Hillenbrand (2010). “Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption”, p.384, Random House

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• When he thought of his history, what resonated with him now was not all that he had suffered but the divine love that he believed had intervened to save him.

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  Unbroken, Divine, Divine Love

  Laura Hillenbrand (2010). “Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption”, p.376, Random House

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• Without dignity, identity is erased.

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  Identity, Dignity

  Laura Hillenbrand (2010). “Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption”, p.183, Random House

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• I am in an altogether new world now. I can think of nothing more wonderful. It is a real touch of all that heaven means.

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  Real, Medio, Pensamiento

  Laura Hillenbrand (2010). “Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption”, p.266, Random House

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• In 1938... the year's #1 newsmaker was not FDR, Hitler, or Mussolini. Nor was it Lou Gehrig or Clark Gable. The subject of the most newspaper column inches in 1938 wasn't even a person. It was an undersized, crooked-legged racehorse named Seabiscuit.

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  Years, Newspapers, Inches

  "Seabiscuit: An American Legend". Book by Laura Hillenbrand, 2001.

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• Though all three men faced the same hardship, their differing perceptions of it appeared to be shaping their fates. Louie and Phil's hope displaced their fear and inspired them to work toward their survival, and each success renewed their physical and emotional vigor. Mac's resignation seemed to paralyze him and the less he participated in their efforts to survive, the more he slipped. Though he did the least, as the days passed, it was he who faded the most. Louie and Phil's optimism, and Mac's hopelessness, were becoming self-fulfilling.

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  Fate, Men, Emotional

  Laura Hillenbrand (2010). “Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption”, p.148, Random House

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• ...maybe it was better to break a man's leg than to break his heart.

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  Heart, Men, Legs

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• I'm attracted to subjects who overcome tremendous suffering and learn to cope emotionally with it

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  Suffering, Overcoming, Subjects

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• Fatigue is what we experience, but it is what a match is to an atomic bomb.

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  Hydrogen Bomb, Bombs, Atomic Bomb

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• La dignidad es tan esencial para la vida humana como el agua, los alimentos y el oxígeno.

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  Oxygen, Water, Essentials

  Laura Hillenbrand (2010). “Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption”, p.183, Random House

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• What God asks of men, said [Billy] Graham, is faith. His invisibility is the truest test of that faith. To know who sees him, God makes himself unseen.

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  Men, Unseen, Unbroken

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• But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story

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  Tasks, Stories, Research

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• Todos los días después de comer, cuando escribía mi primer libro, mordisqueaba un cuadrado de chocolate fino y meditaba sobre todo lo que había contribuido a su creación: el sol y la lluvia que se derramaron sobre la planta de cacao, la tierra que la nutrió, las manos que recogieron los granos, etc. Mi gusto por el chocolate se convirtió en una lección sobre la interconexión de las cosas y las infinitas bendiciones por las que estoy agradecida. Saborear el chocolate se convirtió en una lección sobre la interconexión de las cosas y las infinitas bendiciones que agradezco.

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  Rain, Book, Grateful

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• I am actually in poor health due to chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome, and my ability to work is greatly diminished right now, so I have to get better before I can start another big project

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  Dysfunction, Get Better, Poor

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• I think if I had been writing fiction, where the work is entirely dependent on the writer's creativity and the potential directions the narrative might take are infinite, I might have frozen

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  Escritura, Creatividad, Pensamiento

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• We just sat there and watched the plane pass the island, and it never came back," he said. "I could see it on the radar. It makes you feel terrible. Life was cheap in war.

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  War, Islands, Said

  Laura Hillenbrand (2010). “Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption”, p.83, Random House

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• I have to detach myself completely from aspirations. I hardly ever listen to music anymore because it arouses all of this yearning in me

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  Aspiration, Listening To Music, Yearning

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