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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. By Jim Bishop True Jasmine Darkness Heard Night

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? By Jim Bishop Killed Caskets Read Car Crash

Scoops of mint ice cream with chips of chocolate cows. By Jim Bishop Scoops Cows Mint Ice Cream

Books, I found, had the power to make timestand still, retreat or fly into the future. By Jim Bishop Books Found Retreat Future Power

Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18. By Jim Bishop Including Understands

bluntly, a transfer of power could hardly have occurred at a better time: there were no important decisions to be made; there was nothing of consequence for the new President to consider for the next couple of days. By Jim Bishop Bluntly President Time Made Days

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. By Jim Bishop Raising Skyscraper Child Building Stories

Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun. By Jim Bishop American Golf Fun Played Twenty

Mr. Kennedy had become disenchanted with the Vietnamese President, Ngo Dinh Diem, and Diem distrusted Kennedy. By Jim Bishop President Ngo Kennedy Diem Vietnamese

enough. Still, the swirls which could be defined appeared to match the ones taken from Oswald's left hand tonight. The photos were reversed, and the eyes of the men scanned them again. It wasn't the best of evidence, but both appeared to be made from the same hand. By Jim Bishop Appeared Hand Oswald Tonight Swirls

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. By Jim Bishop Death Birth Casual Unexpected Joy

Lieutenant J. C. Day's work was that he couldn't find fingerprints. Normally there would be prints on the barrel of the rifle and the stock. By Jim Bishop Lieutenant Day Fingerprints Stock Work

Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons. By Jim Bishop Autumn Seasons Carries Gold Pocket

Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla. By Jim Bishop Stradivarius Watching Gorilla Daughter Collected

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. By Jim Bishop Suspicious Good History Makes Writer

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. By Jim Bishop Mother Born Impossible Read Pleasure

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. By Jim Bishop Malleable Made Newspaper Lumber Born

There was word that a Secret Service man and a Dallas policeman were dead - so the plot must be widespread. By Jim Bishop Secret Service Dallas Dead Widespread

God invented whiskey so the Irish wouldn't rule the world. By Jim Bishop Irish God World Invented Whiskey

marksmanship on the rifle range was not as good as his drill instructors expected. Some called his work "sloppy." When By Jim Bishop Marksmanship Expected Sloppy Rifle Range

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. By Jim Bishop Tom Archaeology Sciences Peeping Sandbox

Gimme: an agreement between two losers who can't putt. By Jim Bishop Gimme Putt Agreement Losers

A good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious. By Jim Bishop Suspicious Good Writer History Guy

At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly. By Jim Bishop Friendly Tomorrow

A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender. By Jim Bishop Good Critic Writer Book Bartender

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. By Jim Bishop People Reporter Interesting Endures Presidents

His name was Mr. O. H. Lee and sometimes she said hello and he said nothing. By Jim Bishop Lee

Mulligan: invented by an Irishman who wanted to hit one more twenty yard grounder. By Jim Bishop Mulligan Irishman Invented Grounder Wanted

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. By Jim Bishop United States Thing Newspapers Chronic

the Dallas Police Department felt that, in Lee Harvey Oswald, it had a good catch. By Jim Bishop Oswald Dallas Police Department Lee

To have courage, one must first be afraid. The deeper the fear, the more difficult the climb toward courage. By Jim Bishop Courage Afraid Fear Deeper Difficult

They could hold him in the murder of Officer Tippit. The evidence was far from overwhelming but it was sufficient. For Oswald, the real By Jim Bishop Tippit Officer Hold Murder Oswald

Yes, sir." "I don't know what the doctors are looking for, but they should be told that a pristine bullet has been found." The disorder of the apartment By Jim Bishop Sir Found Apartment Doctors Told

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. By Jim Bishop Facts Reporter Daily Prisoner Clocked

I can look at my books with pleasure from a distance. Four feet is close enough. By Jim Bishop Distance Books Pleasure Feet Close

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. By Jim Bishop Live Present Ridiculous Past Difficult

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. By Jim Bishop Mirror Future Opaque Face Dim

There were records, but Oswald was not regarded as dangerous. By Jim Bishop Oswald Records Dangerous Regarded