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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 fighter (like the writer) must stand alone. If he loses he cannot call an executive conference and throw off on a vice president or the assistant sales manager. He is consequently resented by fractional characters who cannot live outside an organization.
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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.
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An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
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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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The country's present supply of foreign news depends largely on how best a number of dry goods merchants in New York think they can sell underwear.
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Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
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