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I believe my own demons would have caught up with me regardless of my race and regardless of whether I worked at 'The Times.' — Jayson Blair

If they're all so brilliant and I'm such an affirmative-action hire, how come they didn't catch me? — Jayson Blair

A married couple that plays cards together is just a fight that hasn't started yet. — George Burns

It's very painful to have something that's not true written about you. — Jayson Blair

Some people it seems to me would like for me to crawl in a hole and disappear forever. That's just not in my nature. — Jayson Blair

Well the first thing I'd say is that I'm not sure exactly what I'm supposed to do to show my remorse other than to say that I'm remorseful. — Jayson Blair

One of my weaknesses happens to be lying, and I could tell you that I'm never going to lie again in my life, but that would be a lie. — Jayson Blair

This world is unforgiving and cruel to those it judges as even the slightest bit outside the norm. — Seanan McGuire

You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners. — Rita Mae Brown

I feel like I delivered a blow, an unfortunate blow to a profession that not only did I personally love doing but that I value for society. — Jayson Blair

I am immensely contrite. And I'm sorry for the damage I've done. — Jayson Blair

You have to respect all your competitors. — Thorsten Heins

I don't know how one would define an affirmative-action hire. I ultimately do not know what role race played in my hiring. — Jayson Blair

I used to walk around saying that I'm just another black man without a college degree. — Jayson Blair

There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair. — Ted Rall

We're triplets. We do EVERYTHING together — Nina Bangs

Economic issues are just as much moral issues as social issues. — Jonathan Haidt

Whether we are rich or poor, young or old, man or woman, straight or gay: all of us are called to our own brand of personal holiness. — James Martin

The true office of any faith is to give life a meaning which death cannot destroy. — Leo Tolstoy

It's hard to say what role race really played in my case. — Jayson Blair

As corny as it may sound, my true goal was to crack the Americana market. — Arthur Godfrey

The agony is unbearable. Unbearable and endless. — Alan Early

Self-doubts are like weeds; if you don't deal with them right away, they multiply. And before you know it, your garden looks like a jungle in Vietnam. — Emma Chase

I fooled some of the most brilliant people in journalism. — Jayson Blair

Good painter imitates nature, bad ones spews it up. — Miguel De Cervantes

I seek to be authentic and engaging, using my own experiences, being as vulnerable as I ask my clients to be, to enhance the process. — Jayson Blair

Assume the world offers safety and rationality when of course it does not. — Anthony Doerr

Racism built me into a person that was set up to be self-destructive. — Jayson Blair

Memories of our childhood are like images painted on a wet canvas, they merge until they lose all shape, often remaing only as feelings. — Brian Mynott

When we report stories, we don't just want to talk to people who did the right thing. We want to talk to people who did the wrong thing. — Jayson Blair

I am making amends and seeking forgiveness. My only hope is that some good can come out of my situation. — Jayson Blair

You face racism in small and large ways. — Jayson Blair