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> [What makes a good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious. Suspicion marks the real difference between the man who wants to write honest history and the one who'd rather write a good story.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-bishop/what-makes-a-good-writer-of-history-is-a-guy-who-is-suspicious/)

[Jim Bishop](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-bishop/)

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## More by Jim Bishop

> [It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-bishop/it-is-impossible-to-read-for-pleasure-from-something-to-which-you-are/)

[Jim Bishop](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-bishop/)

> [What makes a good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious. Suspicion marks the real difference between the man who wants to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-bishop/what-makes-a-good-writer-of-history-is-a-guy-who-is-suspicious/)

[Jim Bishop](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-bishop/)

> [At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-bishop/at-19-everything-is-possible-and-tomorrow-looks-friendly/)

[Jim Bishop](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-bishop/)

> [Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-bishop/golf-is-played-by-twenty-million-mature-american-men-whose-wives/)

[Jim Bishop](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-bishop/)

> [Death is as casual and often as unexpected as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-bishop/death-is-as-casual-and-often-as-unexpected-as-birth-it-is-as/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-bishop/archaeology-is-the-peeping-tom-of-the-sciences-it-is-the-sandbox-of/)

[Jim Bishop](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-bishop/)

> [Gimme: an agreement between two losers who can't putt.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-bishop/gimme-an-agreement-between-two-losers-who-can-t-putt/)

[Jim Bishop](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-bishop/)

> [A reporter meets interesting people. If he endures, he will get to know princes and presidents, popes and paupers, prostitutes and panderers. And always,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-bishop/a-reporter-meets-interesting-people-if-he-endures-he-will-get-to-know/)

[Jim Bishop](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-bishop/)

> [“A friend asked what he thought of marriage, and Lincoln said quietly: “My father always said, when you make a bad bargain, hug it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-bishop/a-friend-asked-what-he-thought-of-marriage-and-lincoln-said-quietly/)

[Jim Bishop](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-bishop/)

> [Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-bishop/nothing-is-as-far-away-as-one-minute-ago/)

[Jim Bishop](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-bishop/)

> [Mulligan: invented by an Irishman who wanted to hit one more twenty yard grounder.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-bishop/mulligan-invented-by-an-irishman-who-wanted-to-hit-one-more-twenty/)

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> [True love is night jasmine, a diamond in darkness, the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles, fashioned…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-bishop/true-love-is-night-jasmine-a-diamond-in-darkness-the-heartbeat-no/)

[Jim Bishop](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-bishop/)

> [When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-bishop/when-you-read-about-a-car-crash-in-which-two-or-three-youngsters-are/)

[Jim Bishop](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-bishop/)

> [I can look at my books with pleasure from a distance. Four feet is close enough.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-bishop/i-can-look-at-my-books-with-pleasure-from-a-distance-four-feet-is/)

[Jim Bishop](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-bishop/)

> [It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-bishop/it-is-difficult-to-live-in-the-present-ridiculous-to-live-in-the/)

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