"The profession of journalism ought to be about telling people what they need to know - not what they want to know."

-- Walter Cronkite

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“Tall windows show Infinity; And, hard reality, The candles weep and pry and dance Like lives mocked at by Chance. The rooms are vast as Sleep within; When once I ventured in, Chill Silence, like a surging sea, Slowly enveloped me.”
“It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh, thrice guilty is he who. . .drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime.”
“The unhappy man, who once has trail'd a pen, Lives not to please himself, but other men; Is always drudging, wastes his life and blood, Yet only eats and drinks what you think good.”
“I wouldn't write a book, because saying the word I over and over again would nauseate me.”
“I find I like it too much.”
“Why is autobiography the most popular form of fiction for modern readers?”

Source : Jill Ker Conway (2011). “When Memory Speaks: Exploring the Art of Autobiography”, p.3, Vintage
“Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.”
“I was always told I was special. And I was also assured that I had a gift and a purpose.”

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