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All Quotes by author - Jim Bishop
" A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender. "
Book
More
Drunk
" A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day. "
Pictures
Old Age
Day
" Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been. "
Know
Going
Everyone
" At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly. "
Looks
Friendly
Tomorrow
" Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future. "
Time
Books
Future
" Gimme: an agreement between two losers who can't putt. "
Who
Two
Putt
" Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun. "
Think
Having Fun
Sports
" It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago. "
Past
Present
Live
" It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him. "
Impossible
You
Mother
" Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18. "
Including
Those
Teen
" Scoops of mint ice cream with chips of chocolate cows. "
Chips
Ice Cream
Ice
" The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face. "
Look
Old
Future
" The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best in one swift swipe at each story. "
Facts
Story
Best
" Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla. "
Dating
Daughter
Her
" When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets? "
Patience
Treasure
Parents
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