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"For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They'd measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy."
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"Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities."

"Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state."

"If I tell you another seven hundred times, maybe one of these days you might turn your clothes right side out when you put them in the hamper, eh?"

"Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit."

"Don't let your sins turn into bad habits."

"An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones."
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"The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege."

"I suppose I was a little bit of what would be called today a nerd. I didn't have girlfriends, and really I wasn't a very social boy."

"The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines."

"I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them."

"Now that I look back on it, having retired from being a reporter, it was kind of romantic. It was a wonderful way to live one's life, just as I imagined it would be when I was 6 or 7."

"TV critics, who traditionally hate television and make their living writing about it, often didn't like what I did on the air."

"I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it."

"Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything."
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