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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. ↗

— Jim Bishop

#bartender #book #critic #drunk #good

My doctor is wonderful. Once, in 1955, when I couldn't afford an operation, he touched up the X-rays. ↗

— Joey Bishop

#doctor #i #once #operation #touched

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. ↗

— Jim Bishop

#born #conceived #day #dies #grows

At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly. ↗

— Jim Bishop

#friendly #looks #possible #tomorrow

It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling. ↗

— Mark Twain

#balls #golf #golf balls #good #lost

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. ↗

— Jim Bishop

#away #difficult #far #far away #future

Politics ruins the character. ↗

— Otto von Bismarck

#politics #ruins

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. ↗

— Jim Bishop

#been #care #else #everyone #going

My first job in NYC was playing a gig in the early nineties at CBGBs. ↗

— James Iha

#first #gig #job #nineties #nyc

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? ↗

— Jim Bishop

#amount #bodies #car #crash #dwell