American - Journalist | November 21, 1907 - July 26, 1987
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 know where everyone else has been.
Jim Bishop
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It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.
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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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Scoops of mint ice cream with chips of chocolate cows.
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At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly.
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Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18.
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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 in a day.
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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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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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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 and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets?
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Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.
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