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Newspapers write about other newspapers with circumspection, ... about themselves with awe, and only after mature reflection.

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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The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.
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No ascetic can be considered reliably sane.
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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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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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