Red Smith (Walter Wellesley Smith) Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
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No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.
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Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
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I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
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These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.
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I'm a notorious late-night texter. I seem to use a lot of lip, heart, and tongue emoji.
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As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.
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I try to travel as much as I can... I'm always looking for a reason to.
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I would have quit before I went rock-n-roll. I know one way, and that's natural, and when I can't make it, I'll come home and stay. I believe in my music.
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Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
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Not everyone has to be a model and a designer, there are so many other options that are great and long-lasting. It's just finding what you're good at and being honest with yourself.
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Acknowledgment of torture is not accountability for it.
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Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story.
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The Congress has tasked the Federal Reserve with achieving stable prices and maximum employment - the dual mandate.
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The TV schedule is essentially four or five days to get in touch with the story you're doing that week.
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If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest.
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Before being elected to Congress, I was a mayor, and it's this perspective that makes me certain that Ed FitzGerald is the right kind of leader to get Ohio back on track.
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About age ten, we moved from the place where I was born, moved overseas.
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I was away a lot on 'Countdown' when the children were young and I couldn't have done it without Mum's help. Because she was at home running all of that, I never had to worry about them.
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I always forgive, but I never forget.
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The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.
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I like the Beatles, of course, but that's when I grew up.
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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.
