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There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.
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Mr. Cabal's lawyer didn't appreciate your description of his client as 'yellow-bellied vermin culled from the stinkpot of Castro's jails for discharge at Mariel's harbor of shame.
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That's what people do when they find a special place that wild and full of life, they trample it to death.
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In the next 40 years, there's going to be a larger demand than ever for people who can communicate with the written word, whatever format it takes. I don't think there's ever been a greater need for people to be able to write at a functional level, whether they're tapping on their computer keyboard or on their iPhone.
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Mickey Cray had been out of work ever since a dead iguana fell from a palm tree and hit him on the head.
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In his own mind, it was never a matter of courage. But courage it was.
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It was inevitable that the poacher and the counterfeiter would bond, sharing as they did a blanket contempt for government, taxes, homosexuals, immigrants, minorities, gun laws, assertive women and honest work.
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Sunset on the water ought to be a quiet and easy time, but I guess some people can't stand a little silence.
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Actually it was the mark of the stupid, which is what you get for sitting under a tree during a thunderstorm.
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If you picked the headlines from the five largest newspapers in Florida every day, you could make a very solid case that the human race was slipping backward into the primal ooze.
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The victim's hand was contracted into a fist except for the middle digit, which was rigidly extended.
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When I go out and give speeches, the title of my speech is "The Case Against Intelligent Design." And I base it strictly on what I've observed here in Florida, which is that the human race is actually de-evolving, that we are moving backward on the evolutionary scale.
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There's been this great lamentation about the end of newspapers as we know them, the end of the era of the paper hitting your doorstep in the morning, but I don't think the language or the craft of writing is dying.
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Miami... the floating-human-body-parts capital of America.
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Sometimes you're going to be faced with situations where the line isn't clear between what's right and what's wrong.Your heart will tell you to do one thing and your brain will tell you to do something different. In the end, all that's left is to look at both sides and go with your best judgment.
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Like all terrible golfers, Dr. Remond Courtney believed that nothing was too extravagant for his game. He wore Arnold Palmer sweaters and Tom Watson spikes, and carried a full set of Jack Nicklaus MacGregors, including a six-wood that the Golden Bear himself couldn't hit if his life depended on it.
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The message, never stated but avuncularly implied, is that America's values ought to reflect those of the Walt Disney Company and not the other way around.
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The Dragon Queen was firm: No sex, no more voodoo curses on Christopher.
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Mrs. Bonneville never buckled her seat belt, even though it was required by state law; an ardent libertarian, she opposed government meddling in all matters of personal choice.
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Please don't grow up to be one of those men who lie for the sport of it, and most men do. That's a fact. That's why the world is so messed up, Noah. That's why history books are full of so much heartache, and tragedy. Politicians, dictators, kings, phoney-baloney preachers-most of 'em are men, and most of 'em lie like rugs.
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Roy remembered the time he and his father had a talk about fighting. 'It's important to stand up for what's right,' Mr. Eberhardt had said, 'but sometimes there's a fine line between courage and stupidity.
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Public outrage is the best antidote, because it often leads to change. But people can't get outraged without rapid access to solid, useful information — what we used to call journalism. There's so much garbage being disguised as fact and so many gasbags posing as sages; somebody has to cut through the crap.
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Jimmy Lee Baylis was a wise man, and knew better than to talk back to the man who signed his paycheck.
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The man's a born straggler, Honey thought, another lucky exception to the rules of natural selection. A million years ago he would've been an easy snack for a saber-toothed tiger.
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No deliberative body is manifestly less qualified to make decisions about public education than our state Legislature. With a few shining exceptions, most of these clowns don't read, can't write, and clearly can't add.
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Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.
Ignazio Silone
Carl Hiaasen
Born:
March 12, 1953
(age 71)
Bio:
Carl Hiaasen is an American journalist, columnist, and novelist.
Known for:
Skink - No Surrender (2014)
Razor Girl (2016)
Chomp (2012)
Bad Monkey (2013)
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