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 each story.
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Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.Jim Bishop
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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At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly.
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A reporter meets interesting people. If he endures, he will get to know princes and presidents, popes and paupers, prostitutes and panderers. And always, in the back of his head, there will be a dozen men and women he will never meet. And always, he will feel the poorer for it.
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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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Now the task was to get quantitative information about how much iron there was and about its chemistry. A year later, we had the results we needed that pointed to the continental margin as the source of the iron.
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