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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
Journalist
War Correspondent
New York City
New York
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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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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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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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I used to be shy about ordering a steak after I had eaten a steak sandwich, but I got used to it.
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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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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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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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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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Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
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Newspapers write about other newspapers with circumspection, ... about themselves with awe, and only after mature reflection.
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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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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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Cynicism is often the shamefaced product of inexperience.
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