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" A country so rich that it can send people to the moon still has hundreds of thousands of its citizens who can't read. That's terribly troubling to me. "
Rich
Education
Me
" For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They'd measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy. "
Old
Measure
You
" Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students. "
Teachers
Best
Good
" I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading. "
Writing
Communication
Good
" I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I don't know where I got the idea that it was a romantic calling. "
Romantic
Remember
Know
" I can't say that I've changed anybody's life, ever, and that's the real work of the world, if you want a better society. "
You
World
Work
" I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it. "
I Am
Falling In Love
Good
" I didn't like the competitiveness of big-time journalism. "
Like
Competitiveness
Journalism
" I don't have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong. "
Journalism
Society
Wrong
" I don't think I had a reputation as a hard worker, but inside I was always being eaten up by the pressures. "
Always
Inside
Hard
" I don't think one should ever come to my stage of life and have to look back and say, Gosh. I wish I hadn't spent all those years doing that job I was never really interested in. "
Wish
Think
Look
" I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society. "
Mother
Life
Society
" I recognize that I had a good deal of good luck in my life. I came along at a time when it was pretty easy to get a job in journalism. I went to work at CBS News when I was about 22, and within a year or so was reporting on the air. "
Job
Work
Time
" I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted to read. There just wasn't time enough to read everything I wanted to read. "
Time
Enough
Library
" I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I don't think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time. "
Age
People
Time
" It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals. "
Just
Harm
Politicians
" It's best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth. "
Love
Youth
Mind
" I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed. "
You
Driving
Succeed
" Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship. "
Worship
Luck
Heroes
" Look for joy in your life; it's not always easy to find. "
Life
Always
Easy
" Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything. "
Seeing
Country
Thankful
" The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. "
Kindness
Up
Travel
" The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege. "
Love
Wealth
Family
" There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of superiority. "
Things
Doing
Wonderful
" We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune. "
Credit
Bad
Always
" You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars. "
Country
Society
Stars
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