4 Quotes & Sayings By James Carroll

James Carroll is the author of the highly acclaimed book "The Emperor of Ocean Park," a biography of the showman and philanthropist William K. Vanderbilt, who built the famous amusement park in Brooklyn, N.Y., and was later its first owner/operator. His latest book, "The Rich and the Restless," retells the story of the Rockefeller family and their vast fortune and its impact in American life and politics.

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There are times when we stop, we sit still. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper. James Carroll
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Memory is a political act. Forgetfulness is the handmaiden of tyranny. James Carroll
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The very act of story-telling, of arranging memory and invention according to the structure of the narrative, is by definition holy. We tell stories because we can't help it. We tell stories because we love to entertain and hope to edify. We tell stories because they fill the silence death imposes. We tell stories because they save us. James Carroll