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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.

A. J. Liebling

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A. J. Liebling
Age: 59 †
Born: 1904
Born: October 18
Died: 1963
Died: December 28
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New York City
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If a boxer ever went as crazy as Nijinsky all the wowsers in the world would be screaming 'punch-drunk.' Well, who hit Nijinsky? And why isn't there a campaign against ballet? It gives girls thick legs
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There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.
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I met a keen observer who gave me a tip: 'If you run across a restaurant where you often see priests eating with priests, or sporting girls with sporting girls, you may be confident that it is good. Those are two classes of people who like to eat well and get their money's worth.'
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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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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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Newspapers write about other newspapers with circumspection, ... about themselves with awe, and only after mature reflection.
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Cynicism is often the shamefaced product of inexperience.
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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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The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.
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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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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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An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
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People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
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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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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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Freedom of the press belongs to the man who owns one.
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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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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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