The Daily Newspaper
“A biography of something greater
than a man. It is the biography of a DAY. It is a photograph, of twenty-four
hours’ length, of the mysterious river of time that is sweeping past us
forever. And yet we take our year’s newspapers — which contain more tales of
sorrow and suffering, and joy and success, and ambition and defeat, and
villainy and virtue, than the greatest book ever written — and we use them to
light the fire.”
—Adair Lara, columnist, quoting “an 19th century Irish immigrant named O'Reilly,” San Francisco Chronicle,
December 30, 1999.
• Editorial Comment: Beats an iPhone in the fireplace.
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“I
don’t think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If
you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a
little.” —Tom Stoppard
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