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Now it is done. Now the story ends. And there is no way to tell it. The art of fiction is dead. Reality has strangled invention.
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Dying is no big deal. The least of us can manage that. Living is the trick.
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Writing a column is easy. You just sit at your typewriter until little drops of blood appear on your forehead.
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Unlike the normal pattern, I know I have grown more liberal as I've grown older. I have become more convinced that there is room for improvement in the world.
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Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
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Red Smith
Born:
September 25, 1905
Died:
January 15, 1982
(aged 76)
Bio:
Walter Wellesley Smith was an American sportswriter who rose to become one of America's most widely read sports columnists. Smith’s journalistic career spans over five decades and his work influenced an entire generation of writers.
Known for:
Red Smith on baseball
The Red Smith Reader (1982)
Views of sport (1954)
To Absent Friends (1982)
Red Smith on Wikipedia
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