Being a quaker town, where people were ardent abolitionists, but were still enmeshed in the confederacy, that kind of moral decision ... the people in that town were the inspiration.

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It's like being struck by lightning.

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Being here has been incredibly enriching.

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That was a wonderful void to let imagination work.

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I was interested in idealists who go to war and what happens to them.

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I was holding this thing in my hand and thinking 'Who owned this? Was it someone who lived in this house?

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This isn't a book about war, but about the strength of ideas that drive people to extreme action.

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