"For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They'd measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy."

-- Charles Kuralt

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“Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end.”
“In my twenties, I thought I was Robert De Niro and I invested all of myself in my acting. But, as I've got older, I've calmed down a bit. I've thrown my game plan out of the window.”
“Thatâ€™s the beauty of books. We get to take what we want out of them and it can be different for everyone.”
“In my view, [Vladimir] Putin despises the West in general and the United States in particular, both for who we are, our liberal values, and for what we`ve done, which is to take down the Soviet Empire.”

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“The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.”
“What is the right of the huntsman to the forest of a thousand miles over which he has accidentally ranged in quest of prey? Shall the fields and vallies, which a beneficent God has formed to teem with the life of innumerable multitudes, be condemned to everlasting barrenness?”
“You can't spend as much money as I have, even if you try. I've been trying.”
“I'm sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing.”

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