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Jim Bishop Quotes

«True love is night jasmine, a diamond in darkness, the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles, fashioned of fleecy clouds -- a handful of stars tossed into the night sky.»
Author: Jim Bishop (Writer)
«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.»
Author: Jim Bishop (Writer) | About: Living | Keywords: ago, As Far, one minute, ridiculous
«Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.»
«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.»
Author: Jim Bishop (Writer) | About: Death and dying, Grief | Keywords: casual, fade, finite, unexpected
«Gimme: an agreement between two losers who can't putt.»
Author: Jim Bishop (Writer) | About: Golf | Keywords: agreement, Gimme, Losers, putt
«Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.»
Author: Jim Bishop (Writer) | About: Golf | Keywords: mature, played, wives
«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.»
«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.»
«The morning after a death, we learned an avalanche of goodies about the renowned, some of which persuaded the reader that he should have cultivated the deceased in life.»
«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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