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There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.
A. J. Liebling
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A. J. Liebling
Age: 59 †
Born: 1904
Born: October 18
Died: 1963
Died: December 28
Journalist
War Correspondent
New York City
New York
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The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.
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If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.
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Our hypothetical rich client might even have ordered a Pommard, because it was listed at a higher price...He would have never learned [about other wines]. A man who is rich in his adolescence is almost doomed to be a dilettante at table. This is not because all millionaires are stupid but because they are not impelled to experiment.
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Last week, I had to offer my publisher a bottle that was far too good for him simply because there was nothing between the insulting and the superlative.
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