Thomas Keneally (Australian author) in The Great Shame, quoting John Boyle O'Reilly (Irish-born poet and writer) speaking about the phenomenon of the newspaper...
...a biography of something greater than a man. It is the biography of a Day. It is a photograph, of twenty-four hours' length, of the mysterious river of time that is sweeping past us forever. And yet, we take our year's newspapers - which contain more tales of sorrow and suffering, and joy and success, and ambition and defeat, and villainy and virtue, than the greatest book ever written - and we give them to the girl to light the fire.
...a biography of something greater than a man. It is the biography of a Day. It is a photograph, of twenty-four hours' length, of the mysterious river of time that is sweeping past us forever. And yet, we take our year's newspapers - which contain more tales of sorrow and suffering, and joy and success, and ambition and defeat, and villainy and virtue, than the greatest book ever written - and we give them to the girl to light the fire.
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