Stephen Collins Foster

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    “All the world is sad and dreary, Everywhere I roam.”
    —Stephen Collins Foster (1826–1864)

    “Massa’s in de cold, cold ground.”
    —Stephen Collins Foster (1826–1864)

    “Gone are the days when my heart was young and gay,
    Gone are my friends from the cotton fields away,
    Gone from the earth to a better land I know,
    I hear their gentle voices calling “Old Black Joe.””
    —Stephen Collins Foster (1826–1864)

    “I dream of Jeanie with the light brown hair.”
    —Stephen Collins Foster (1826–1864)

    “Charles Foster Kane: Look, Mr. Carter. Here is a three-column headline in the Chronicle. Why hasn’t the Inquirer a three-column headline?
    Carter: News wasn’t big enough.
    Charles Foster Kane: Mr. Carter, if the headline is big enough, it makes the news big enough.”
    —Orson Welles (1915–1985)