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The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.
— Jim Bishop
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Jim Bishop
journalist, biographer
1907 – 1987
James Alonzo Bishop was an American journalist and author who wrote the bestselling book The Day Lincoln Was Shot.
All Quotes by Jim Bishop
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Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been.
— Jim Bishop
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At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly.
— Jim Bishop
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What makes a good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious. Suspicion marks the real difference between the man who wants to write honest history and the one who'd rather write a good story.
— Jim Bishop