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I can write better than anyone who can write faster.
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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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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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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An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
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The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.
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Cynicism is often the shamefaced product of inexperience.
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Newspapers write about other newspapers with circumspection, ... about themselves with awe, and only after mature reflection.
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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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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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Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
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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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The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.
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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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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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Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.
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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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If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.
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The country's present supply of foreign news depends largely on how best a number of dry goods merchants in New York think they can sell underwear.
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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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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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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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