"A common defense among obituary-fanciers such as myself……" — Tom Rachman
"A common defense among obituary-fanciers such as myself is that the obit is not about death at all. It is about life. This is true since an article about the condition of deadness would make for turgid reading at best."
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Tom Rachman
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15 Quotes by Tom Rachman
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You know, there's that silly saying 'We're born alone and we die alone' -it's nonsense. We're surrounded at birth and…
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Here is a fact: nothing in all civilization has been as productive as ludicrous ambition. Whatever its ills, nothing has…
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Our worst fear isn't the end of life but the end of memories.
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Anything that's worth anything is complicated.
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Basically, financial reporting is this sinking hole at the centre of journalism. You start by swimming around it until finally,…
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We enjoy this illusion of continuity and we call it memory. Which explains, perhaps, why our worst fear isn't the…
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When I left Toronto and entered journalism in the late 1990s, I had many notions about the news business, nearly…
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My parents used to rent old movies - my whole childhood is in black and white - and it was…
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The strength of fiction is not in reading about yourself, but in reading about other people.
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Journalists who are devoted to strictly factual reporting take particular pleasure from satirical news outlets that have the liberty to…
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During my past career as a journalist, I relished writing obits and equally dreaded phoning relatives for the necessary facts.…
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There are journalists who are drawn to the most extroverted, aggressive jobs because they get an ego high from it.…
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