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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.
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 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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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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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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I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.
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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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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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It is an anomaly that information, the one thing most necessary to our survival as choosers of our own way, should be a commodity subject to the same merchandising rules as chewing gum.
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Newspapers write about other newspapers with circumspection, ... about themselves with awe, and only after mature reflection.
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No ascetic can be considered reliably sane.
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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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