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What I learned on the road. Above all else - to love my native land.

Charles Kuralt

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Charles Kuralt
Age: 62 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 10
Died: 1997
Died: July 4
Correspondent
Journalist
News Presenter
New York City
New York
Charles Bishop Kuralt
Native
Road
Learned
Land
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Love

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Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people.... We are a nation rich in rivers.
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What you need for breakfast, they say in East Tennessee, is a jug of good corn liquor, a thick steak and a hound dog. Then you feed the steak to the dog.
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I think I'd have done better if I had been a little more relaxed-if I had not pressed quite so hard, if I'd not lost quite so much sleep.
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I think the feature reporter often walks a very thin line between a truly human story and one that slops over into mushiness or sentimentality.
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I had a tight stomach all the time. I actually developed ulcers. I've learned better than to put all that internal pressure on myself.
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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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A true Southerner will never say in 2-3 words what can better be said in 10-12.
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Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.
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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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I gained a great appreciation for what I would call the collective achievement of the country. I began thinking of America as a much more just and humane place than I would have thought if I'd been covering the civil rights struggle.
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I can't say that I've changed anybody's life, ever, and that's the real work of the world, if you want a better society.
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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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I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.
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A country so rich that it can send people to the moon still has hundreds of thousands of its citizens who can't read. That's terribly troubling to me.
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That was the overwhelming thing to me, the joy of carrying my portable typewriter to an event and trying to describe it.
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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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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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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.
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I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.
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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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