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September 30, 2019

Girls

“Nothing on Earth is more important than a pretty girl. Everything else is doo-doo.”

—Holden McQuitty Oliver, 2019, Salzburg

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September 20, 2019

Boomers

Boomers are still It. It will be a while until we see that kind of moxie again. All out. Every day. Until the last dog dies. Boomers will walk through walls to get stuff done.

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September 13, 2019

I miss Kay Graham

Lots of people do. If you’re interested in journalism, American politics or great lives, do read the autobiography of Katharine Graham, publisher of the Washington Post 1969-1979. Her “Personal History” won the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Biography/Autobiography.

Personal History, by Katharine Graham (1997 Alfred A. Knopf)

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September 06, 2019

John Irving on Editing.

Half my life is an act of revision.

--John Irving (1942-)

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