Quotes by Jim Bishop

"At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly."

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"Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla."

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"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."

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"Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future."

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"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?"

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"Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18."

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