"A good writer is not, per se, a……" — 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."
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24 Quotes by Jim Bishop
Jim Bishop has 24 quotes on this site.
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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 newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up…
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When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell…
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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…
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A golf ball can stop in the fairway, rough, woods, bunker or lake. With five equally likely options, very few…
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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…
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Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are…
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