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Autumn carries more gold in its hand than all the other seasons.

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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.

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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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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 minuteago.

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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 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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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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Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.

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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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At 19, everything looks possible and tomorrow looks friendly.

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

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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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They should not clean out their kitchens or the medicine cabinet. Very few agencies are interested in recycled clothes from the attic.

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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.

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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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Scoops of mint ice cream with chips of chocolate cows.

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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.

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

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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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We're concerned that the same priority won't be given to long-term development as resources are siphoned to support shorter-term diplomatic or military objectives.

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It's better and easier on the transmitter to be on the air 24 hours a day rather than shutting it down at sign off time and then turning the thing on again in the morning at 6 am, its much easier this way.

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The recovery effort is one that's going to require three to five years at a minimum, and the agencies that are going to stay the course have to extend their funds in a way calculated to allow them to complete the work.

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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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