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A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.

~Jim Bishop

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Scoops of mint ice cream with chips of chocolate cows.

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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.

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Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18.

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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.

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Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.

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Gimme: an agreement between two losers who can't putt.

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Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.

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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?

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: November 21st, 1907

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