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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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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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Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.
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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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