"It is impossible to read for pleasure from……" — 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 despises the thing that enslaved him."
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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 good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically…
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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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I was born in the Ottawa General Hospital right after the Gray Cup Football Game in 1939. Six months later,…
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Art is born of humiliation.
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What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.
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You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where…
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The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What…
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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