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The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.
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 world isn't going backward, if you can just stay young enough to remember what it was really like when you were really young.
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Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing itself until the past is perennially forgotten.
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Newspapers write about other newspapers with circumspection, ... about themselves with awe, and only after mature reflection.
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Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
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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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People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
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There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.
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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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No ascetic can be considered reliably sane.
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The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.
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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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My old friend looked at me with a new respect. He was discovering in me a capacity for hypocrisy that he had never credited me with before.
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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.
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Cynicism is often the shamefaced product of inexperience.
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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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The fighter (like the writer) must stand alone. If he loses he cannot call an executive conference and throw off on a vice president or the assistant sales manager. He is consequently resented by fractional characters who cannot live outside an organization.
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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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Inconsiderate to the last, Josef Stalin, a man who never had to meet a deadline, had the bad taste to die in installments.
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