Some Last WORDs for 2009

Unwrap These Slowly

“I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.’” —Kurt Vonnegut, writer

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they go by.” —Douglas Adams, journalist

“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.” —The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech, Dec. 10, 1964

“The power in the freedom of the press is a flaming sword! That it may be a faithful servant of all the people ... use it justly ... hold it high ... guard it well.” —Opening lines to the radio series Big Town, 1937-1952

“Kroger’s had a sign on one of its checkout centers saying: ‘This register is closed to serve you better.’” —Javan Kienzle, writer

“I am dead to adverbs; they cannot excite me.” —Mark Twain, writer

“It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.”—Dame Rose Macaulay, author

“You never monkey with the truth.” —Ben Bradlee, editor

“I’ll never forget the day I read a book. It was contagious, 70 pages. There were pictures here and there ...” —Jimmy Durante, singer
“Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.” —Aldous Huxley, writer

“Go forth! Unlearn the lies we taught you.” —Jacob Neusner, educator

“I love going out in the dark, finding the paper and reading it over breakfast.” —Matthew Flitton, journalist

“There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the information by which to detect lies.”—Walter Lippmann, newsman

“Don’t take life serious, Son… it ain’t nohow permanent.” —Albert Alligator, philosopher-king

Editor’s Note: “God Bless Us, Every One!” —Tiny Tim