Quotes by Howell Raines - Page 1

It's a lovely tribute and fun to read.
Howell Raines / Journalist
Fun
Lovely
Tribute
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I stepped on a land mine named Jayson Blair.
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Blair
Land
Mines
Named
Mine
Stepped
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Frankly, no newspaper is set up to monitor for cheats and fabricators.
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Cheat
Cheating
Newspapers
Cheats
Frankly
Monitor
Newspaper
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Anything is possible in the life of a man if he lives long enough. Even maturity.
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Men
Long
Maturity
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All genius is simple. It involves close observation and a momentous act of self trust.
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Mind Your Own Business
Self
Simple
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Something is clearly wrong with Kansas and the rest of Middle America when it comes to letting economic self-interest guide their voting.
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America
Kansas
Self
Self Interest
Voting
Guide
Letting
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I have learned that I am also a person who has to be able to go fishing whenever I can and for as long as I want to go. It is a silly thing, but there it is.
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Lakes
Rivers
Silly
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When I am home alone I like to scatter my tackle across the floor and play with it. I may pretend I am working on it, performing preventative maintenance, but really it is playing.
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Home
Maintenance
Play
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For me, fishing and journalism touched the same places in my head. In comparison with that of poets, the fly fishers' and the journalists' experiences are probably pale flavors, but they carry nonetheless a hint of ambrosia.
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Fishing
Flavor
Hints
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Fly fishing is the most beautiful way of trying to catch a fish; not the most efficient, just as ballet is the most beautiful way of moving the body between between two points, not the most direct. Fly fishing is to fishing as ballet is to walking.
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Beautiful
Lakes
Moving
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Fish in the water represent pure potential. If the water is not clear, we do not know if they exist at all. To get them to bite something connected to a line and pull them into our world is managing a birth that brings these creatures from the realm of mysytery into the world of reality. It is a kind of creation.
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Lakes
Our World
Reality
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And believe me, to have been in the city of Tuscaloosa in October when you were young and full of Early Times and had a shining Alabama girl by your side--to have had all that and then to have seen those red shirts pour onto the field, and, then, coming behind them, with that inexorable big cat walk of his, the man himself, The Bear--that was very good indeed.
Howell Raines / Journalist
Girl
Believe
Cat
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