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?

Quote by Jim Bishop

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Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar...

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A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than...

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Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out...

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The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing...

Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18.

Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18.

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Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar...

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Gimme: an agreement between two losers who can't putt.

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A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It...

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Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out...

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Death is as casual-and often as unexpected-as birth. It is as difficult to define grief...

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A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than...

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It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father...

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Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who...

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Scoops of mint ice cream with chips of chocolate cows.

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I can look at [my books] with pleasure from a distance. Four feet is close...

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Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who...

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The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is...

Better slip with foot than tongue

Better slip with foot than tongue

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You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

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You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to...