Jim Bishop
Jim Bishop
James Alonzo "Jim" Bishopwas an American journalist and author who wrote the bestselling book The Day Lincoln was Shot...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth21 November 1907
CountryUnited States of America
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Young females are quitting more quickly and extensively than males, which is a surprise.
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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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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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Death is as casual and often as unexpected as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade.
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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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What makes a good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious. Suspicion marks the real difference between the man who wants to write honest history and the one who'd rather write a good story.
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Perhaps the best thing which can be said about newspapers in the United States is that they are in chronic disagreement with each other. That is what is meant by a free press.
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A good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious.
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Raising a child is very much like building a skyscraper. If the first few stories are slightly out of line. no one will notice. But when the building is 18 or 20 stories high, everyone will see that it tilts.
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At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly.
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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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Scoops of mint ice cream with chips of chocolate cows.
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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 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.