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The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.
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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The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.
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No ascetic can be considered reliably sane.
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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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Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.
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People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
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If there is any way you can get colder than you do when you sleep in a bedding roll on the ground in a tent in southern Tunisia two hours before dawn, I don't know about it.
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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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