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I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.

Charles Kuralt

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Charles Kuralt
Age: 62 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 10
Died: 1997
Died: July 4
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New York City
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Charles Bishop Kuralt
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The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.
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Most of those old settlers told it like it was, rough and rocky. They named their towns Rimrock, Rough Rock, Round Rock, and Wide Ruins, Skull Valley, Bitter Springs, Wolf Hole, Tombstone. It's a tough country. The names of Arizona towns tell you all you need to know.
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The first books I was interested in were all about baseball. But I can't think of one single book that changed my life in any way.
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It's that enthusiasm, that passion for what you're doing, that is most important.
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You can't travel the back roads very long without discovering a multitude of gentle people doing good for others with no expectation of gain or recognition. The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. Some people out there spend their whole lives selflessly.
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I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.
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I have spent a good part of my life looking for the perfect barbecue. There is no point in looking in places like Texas, where they put some kind of ketchup on beef and call it barbecue. Barbecue is pork, which narrows the search to the South, and if it's really good pork barbecue you are looking for, to North Carolina.
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It was so much fun to have the freedom to wander America, with no assignments. For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself.
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Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens.
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