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I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.
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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If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.
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A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department.
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Freedom of the press belongs to the man who owns one.
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The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.
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There is a healthy American newspaper tradition of not taking yourself seriously It is the story you must take that way... And if you do take yourself seriously, according to this sound convention, you are supposed to do your best not to let anyone else know about it. (Like bed-wetting.)
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An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
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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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If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.
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There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.
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I had an attack of the gout two days before pulling out, and I went limping off to the war instead of coming limping back from it.
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Forget that New Orleans is actually a little like the Combat Zone with French cooking, it still happens to be part of the great state of Louisiana where people play the political game the same way it's played in Lebanon. The place is one layer after another of tribes, factions and at least a million laughs.
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To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris.
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Henry Miller may write about revelers self-woven into a human hooked rug, because his ecstasy is solemn.
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Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred yards away from the patch. By the time they reach New York, they are like Golden Bantam that has been trucked up from Texas - stale and unprofitable. The consumer forgets that the corn tastes different where it grows.
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Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
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I can write better than anyone who can write faster.
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The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.
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It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.
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I used to be shy about ordering a steak after I had eaten a steak sandwich, but I got used to it.
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People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
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