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Freedom of the press belongs to the man who owns one.
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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I can write better than anyone who can write faster.
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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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If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.
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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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I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy
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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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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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No ascetic can be considered reliably sane.
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Newspapers write about other newspapers with circumspection, ... about themselves with awe, and only after mature reflection.
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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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A city with one newspaper... is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.
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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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There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.
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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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