Jim Bishop Quotes
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Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.
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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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A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.
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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…
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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…
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Scoops of mint ice cream with chips of chocolate cows.
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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…
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A golf ball can stop in the fairway, rough, woods, bunker or lake. With five equally likely options, very few balls choose the fairway.
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Mulligan: invented by an Irishman who wanted to hit one more twenty yard grounder.
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To have courage, one must first be afraid. The deeper the fear, the more difficult the climb toward courage.
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Gimme: an agreement between two losers who can't putt.
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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 of…
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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…
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I can look at my books with pleasure from a distance. Four feet is close enough.
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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.
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Death is as casual and often as unexpected as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade.
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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…
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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…
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Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18.
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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.
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